Cutting Quote by Horace Download Open image “Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cutting Failing Knots Ridicule Severity
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. — Horace Copy Share Image
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. — Saul Alinsky 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
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“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
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