Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "A" » A. P. Herbert Quotes
«Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, / For mother will be there.»
«Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.»
«Other people's babies - / That's my life! / Mother to dozens, / And nobody's wife.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
| Keywords:
dozens
«A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.»
«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
| Keywords:
blasphemous, category, corners, elaborate, elaborated, elderly, excusable, extracted, face the music, fond, fourteenth, fury, gentlemen, hack, hacking, hacks, included, intolerable, legally, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, mutter, muttered, muttering, provocations, respects, robberies, robbery, Short words, The Downs, torture, ungovernable
«An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected..»
«People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.»
«Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.»
«The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
«Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
