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Please Quotes by Horace
- Poets wish to profit or to please.
- To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
- The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
- The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would…
- Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
- He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
- No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
- Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no…
- No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
More Please Quotes
- Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who… — Matthias de l'Obel
- In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt
- If what you see by the eye doesn't please you, then close your eyes and see from the heart. Because the heart… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a… — Giacomo Casanova
- Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger