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" » pull down
«I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.»
Author: Elihu Root
(Lawyer, Statesman)
| Keywords:
climb down, climb up, pull down, to a higher place
«Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice; Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice.»
Author: Sidney Freedman
| Keywords:
gentlemen, ladies, Ladies and, pants, pull down, slide, slide down
«If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.»
«He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Advice,
Example,
Truth
| Keywords:
admonition, builds, counsel, counseled, counseling, example, hands down, hand down, pulls, pull down
«Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down»
«Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.»
«And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: / And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? / And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.»
«At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; / If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.»
«It is easier to pull down than to build up»
Author: Latin Proverb
| Keywords:
build, building up, build in, build up, down, easier, pull, pulling out, pull down, pull in, pull over, pull through, pull up
«I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, come down, down, going, go down on, over, pull, pulling out, pull down, pull in, pull over, pull through, pull up, sped, speeded, speeded up, speeding, speeds, speed up
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!
