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 "P" » passage
«The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.»
Author: James Taylor
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Life,
Time
| Keywords:
enjoying, passage
«The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
chore, concentrating, dispersing, drops, fall behind, Hard rock, hasty, hideous, hone, honed, honing, Leave No Trace, passage, rocks, rushes, trace, uproar, weakest
«Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.»
«We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
enforcement, law enforcement, legislator, legislators, passage
«RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
filter, filtered, filtering, filters, fitted, inhabitant, passage, respirator, The Nose, whereby
«The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.»
«The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort; with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.»
«Sorrow: a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contributes, passage, rust, scour, scoured, scouring
«Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.»
«This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide; it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited.»
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!
