A Quote by Horace

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

Horace

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Devoid Substance Trifles Verses Versus

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

Horace

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

Tacitus

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

Horace

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

Horace

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

Billy Graham

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.

Sam Storms

I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

Loretta Lynn

We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the page. That isn't the case. While that's important, context is so much wider than a handful of verses.

Michael S. Heiser

The cyber security strategy for the United Kingdom is a master of the formulaic jargon we have come to associate with the Labour government, and is almost totally devoid of substance.

Crispin Blunt

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Oliver Goldsmith

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

Joseph C. Wilson

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Aristotle

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.