Horace Common Quotations

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.