Concise Quote by Horace Download Open image “In trying to be concise I become obscure.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concise Obscure Short Trying
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. — Horace Copy Share Image
If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me. — Ileana D'Cruz 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
I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
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
The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do?… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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
