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" » prime
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
| Keywords:
accord, attributing, characteristic, coincidence, coincidences, conclusive, Correspondences, drastically, frequency, prime, significance, sorts, tendency, too little, underestimate
«Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.»
Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
| About:
Colors,
World
| Keywords:
arises, its color, loveliness, prime
«Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.»
Author: Rennie Ellis
| Keywords:
accompanies, anointing, anoints, belonging, bloke, blokes, confirmation, confirmations, fluid, fluids, intercourse, lubricant, prime, ritual, sink, social intercourse, throat
«Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
adopt, begun, capital, concentrate, engaged, exclusively, have the best, Here is, improvement, lead-in, line of business, machinery, one line, on that, prime
«I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.»
«By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
akin, arouse, Passion play, prime, route, The Passions
«Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
aid, assist, attend, elderly, failing, prime, prime of life, supplement, supplements
«Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clever, minister, prime, primed, Prime Minister, prime ministers, Prime Minister of, Shakespeare
«Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
minister, prime, Prime Minister, prime ministers, Prime Minister of, The Crowd
«(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
chamberlain, chamberlains, Joseph Chamberlain, Joseph I, prime, prime ministers, Prime Minister of, working man
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!