Concise Quote by Horace Download Open image “In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concise Obscure Speech
Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Alas, ‘tis the bane of the innuendo as its natural tendency is to make itself obscure.” — Brenda Sloan Copy Share Image
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.” — Florence King Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
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I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
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A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
