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 "C" » collections
«Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners»
Author: Isaac Disraeli
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
accidents, besides, Borrowers, collections, damp, damps, rats, subject to, worms
«The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you.»
Author: Jello Biafra
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
at last, broadcasting, broadcasts, collection, collections, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, declared, done for, Enemy of the state, failing, individual rights, interfering, law school, Martial, morning prayer, national, number one, obey, one shot, orders, proceed, samples, scheduled, schedules, scheduling, shot, shut, shut up, sports, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Right Questions, the United States, united, United States, urine
«It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.»
Author: Nick Hornby
| Keywords:
collections, disagree, favorite, films, it No, no-good, pretending, record, to each other, violently
«Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
acquired, age, Age to Age, collection, collections, come of age, common, commoner, common sense, eighteen, prejudiced, prejudices, sense, sensed, sense an, sensing
«In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.»
«Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
Borrowers, collections, creators, shelves, spoiler, spoilers, symmetry, The Spoiler
«Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Experience,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
called, collection, collections, happen, later, mistakes, painful
«I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
all the, beaches, collection, collections, largest, On the Beach, perhaps, seen, The Beaches
«After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
after all, books, book of knowledge, collection, collections, days, In books, manner, professors, These Days, The Professor, the true, university
«Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
collection, collections, collectively, fatal, medicine, prescriptions, uncertain
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!
