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Superfluous Quotes by Horace
- 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…
- Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
- 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…
- Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
More Superfluous Quotes
- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. — Ingrid Bergman
- It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. — Johannes Brahms
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou
- At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer
- Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous… — Isaac Newton
- To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church,… — Origen