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 Keywords:
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 keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "B" » by the hour
«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
axes, by the hour, chop, chopping, chop down, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, eight, had, hours, sharpened, sharpening, six, spend, take down, Tree
«The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.»
Author: Henri Nouwen
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
bereavement, by the hour, cares, confusion, curing, despair, Despaired, despairs, Friend, grief, healing, heal all, hour, In a, in a moment, knowing, moment, silent, stay, stay on, that is, tolerate, tolerating
«If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Happiness,
Life,
Success
| Keywords:
Advances, by the hour, common, commoner, confidently, direction, dreams, endeavored, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, meet, To Live, unexpected
«If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today»
«He would pore by the hour, o'er a weed or a flower, / Or the slugs that come crawling out after a shower.»
Author: Rev. R. H. Barham
(Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
by the hour, crawling, pore, pored, pores, Poring, poring over, slug, slugging, slugs, weed
«It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
attitude, by the hour, count, deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, easy, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, express, expressing, hours, impress, impresses, impressing, instead, into, learn, let, living, making, out, put, put in, rather, So What, The Count, The Express, The Hours, too, while
«Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
ages, Age to Age, assured, assuring, as follows, before, best, by the hour, come of age, doubts, duties, fears, follow, follow through, For the, hour, hours, I doubt it, performance, preparation, right to life, right to work, spend, The Best, The Hours, waste, well, work
«It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour»
«If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
by the hour, congress, errs, fifty, Fifty one, lawyers, one hundred, one hundred fifty, send, trade, yield
«Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.»
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!
