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 "T" » The Clouds
«A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
clouds, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, moped, mopes, moping, optimist, pessimist, philosopher, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sides, The Clouds, The Dark, walking
«A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mothers
| Keywords:
cling, cling to, clouds, counsels, desert, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, endeavor, fall into place, fall upon, heavy, Precepts, rejoice, Return to, sudden, The Clouds, thicken, Trials, truest
«Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
blades, branches, Branches of, Clouds The, depths, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, gleaming, gleams, green earth, Green Grass, haunts, heavens, hues, lift, numberless, overflow, overflows, pervade, pervaded, pervading, precious stone, rising, sea green, setting, shell, spring beauty, temple, The Clouds, The Rising, unfolds, waves
«As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
answers, believes, clouds, fulfillment, ideal, look for, outside, solutions, The Clouds
«How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! / For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: / I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
ascend, congregation, congregations, cut down, exalt, Hast, heights, Higher Ground, lucifer, morning star, mount, North, North Star, Son of, The Clouds, The Morning Star, The Mount, the North, Thine, throne, weaken
«For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: / Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abundantly, distil, drops, drop down, pour, pour down, rain cloud, rain down, thereof, The Clouds, vapour
«Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.»
«A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
believer, bird, cage, clouds, eagle, freethinker, Freethinkers, parting, partings, The Clouds, tireless, wing
«Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
Begin, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, descending, foundation, humility, lay, Pierce, pierces, piercing, plan, rise, The Clouds, The Foundation, tower, Towered
« God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.»
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!
