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 "G" » gain
«Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
accomplished, achieve, costs, decided, distaste, gain, immense, labor, self confidence, task, tedium, tiresome
«He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose»
«For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Change,
Compromise,
Life
| Keywords:
else, Everything You, gain, gained, lose, missed, something else
«If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| Keywords:
asking, by all means, gain, Nothing to Lose, that means nothing
«Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.»
«Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
both, deserve, gain, Give Me Liberty, give up, liberty, neither, On Liberty, securities, security, society
«If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.»
«By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.»
«All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.»
«A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.»
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!
