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 "S" » smaller
«The smaller the stakes, the pettier the politics»
«When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.»
«The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.»
«The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.»
«The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
avoid, Begin, hurt, insignificant, in proportion to, late, proportion, proportioned, smaller, suffer, suffering, Too late, torture, tortures, torturing, Truth Hurts
«The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
asunder, customs, discerned, faculties, fortunate, milky, Milky Way, scarce, smaller, small fortune, small number, The Milky Way
«You become smaller and smaller, you small people! You are fading away, you lovers of the easy life! You are being destroyed . . . your soil is too protective, too yielding.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
fading, fading away, protective, smaller, soil, yielding
«War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands»
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!