A Quote by Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

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Aiming Become Brevity Obscure

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Theophile Gautier

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

Michael R. Burch

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Martial

We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

David Christian

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

Arthur Lynch

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Moby

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

Thomas Carlyle

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

Janice Dickinson

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

The WWE and World Heavyweight Titles are the ones everyone is aiming for, and if you're not aiming for them, you are in the wrong business - and I like to think that when the time is right, I will get my shot.

Drew McIntyre

If you're aiming for a hole in one, and you get one, you feel lucky - but at the same time you can justifiably say, 'Well, I was aiming for the hole anyway.'