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 "R" » resemblance
«I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.»
Author: Ben Affleck
| Keywords:
cocksure, described, insecurity, plagued, resemblance, swagger, swaggering
«It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.»
«All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
motivated, resemblance, resembles, stirs
«He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat»
«He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
banqueting, banquets, bore, bought, complicated, cookery, fascinated, hungry, noticed, pictures, picture book, recipes, resemblance, vast
«And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.»
«HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appetite, article, cage, catholicity, chiefly, delicacies, delicacy, dicky, esteemed, fowl, hog, illustrate, illustrated, illustrating, in chorus, in full, Jews, melody, remarkable, resemblance, respected, Rockefeller, scientific name, serving, songster, The Cage, the Chorus
«PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, epistles, piety, pig, resemblance, sermons, snout, Supreme Being, swine
«Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
admiration, polite, politer, politest, recognition, resemblance
«Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who kn»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alas, chastisement, chastisements, gaol, resemblance, whence, who are you
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!
