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 "I" » in short
«An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| About:
Actors and acting,
Personality
| Keywords:
bearing, critical, diction, ego, exposed, in short, vulnerable
«An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth / in short, materialism / does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
(Economist, Founder)
| Keywords:
contains, fulfillment, in short, limiting, minded, placed, single-minded, strictly, The single
«A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
admitted, beau, beaux, cards, in short, laughs, looking glass, mistress, motions, observe, presence of mind, sigh, sighs, solemnly, The Shadow
«A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.»
«Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.»
«By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.»
Author: S. I. Hayakawa
| Keywords:
classification, classifications, convenience, conveniences, desired, for the time being, generally accepted, in short, in the United States, justifiable, Negro, regards, small white, suits, systems
«Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey
| Keywords:
breathing, cows, deprived, deprived of, gentlest, in short, passionate, profess, short I, tenderness
«Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Communism
| Keywords:
communism, conformity, Death of, in short, organization, The Organization
«Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| Keywords:
circumstance, done with, enable, in short, reference, references, reference to, with reference to
«Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
concentration, in short, strengths, trade in
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!
