Acceptable Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce…

— Lord Chesterfield

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

— Umberto Eco

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

— Galway Kinnell

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

— Mason Cooley

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

— Galway Kinnell

“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some…

— Samuel Johnson

“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would…

— Plato