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" » prefers
«A corporation prefers to offer a job to a man who already has one To obtain entry into paradise, in terms of employment, you should be in a full state of grace.»
«I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.»
«Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Christianity,
Morality
| Keywords:
precede, prefers, remorse
«Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true»
«He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
acquire, bread, destroy, digestion, fretful, outlook, prefer, prefers, undoubtedly, useful
«A good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient»
«He who prefers to give to Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half»
«But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
charmed, charming, exactly, flatter, flat out, Friend, friendship, give it a try, giving, going, indeed, knows, means, of one mind, pain, please, preferring, prefers, really, say, says, tried and true, try, unpleasant
«Love prefers twilight to daylight»
«Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
absent, appreciation, clock time, dwell on, here and now, masculine, prefers, punctual
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!
