Logo
But further, in order to embellish it with flowers of language and

But further, in order to embellish it with flowers of language and gems of thought, it is not necessary for this ornamentation to be spread evenly over the entire speech, but it must be so distributed that there may be brilliant jewels placed at various points as a sort of decoration. – Cicero, De oratore

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,

Category:
Quotations

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer. – C.C. Colton, “Preface,” Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed To Those

Category:
Quotations

Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges

Category:
Quotations

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Money

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. – Nick Faldo

Category:
Marriage

I dont care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, Ill laugh because theyll probably be funny. – Paula Deen

Category:
funny

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We dont honor them enough, we dont pay them enough. – Charles Kuralt

Category:
Society