Adages And Proverbs Quotes & Sayings

The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet. — Louis Kronenberger

The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer. — Reed Krakoff

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. — Ken Blanchard

And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me. — Karen Traviss

The Master said: 'Artful speech and an ingratiating demeanour rarely accompany virtue. — Confucius

As it happens I've spent a night and a day going through your records. Fascinating stuff." Kempis took a roll of parchment from his cloak and tossed it onto the desk. "You know what really bugs me?" Enli steepled his hands. "I'm on tenterhooks." "Anolamies." "Anomalies?" "Them too. — Marc Turner

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth. — Baron De Montesquieu

A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way. — G.H. Hardy

The problem is that we won't ever know that, and a lack of data never wins debates. — David Weber

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone? ... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour. — Desiderius Erasmus

The actual stronghold of a man is inaccessible, almost invisible, until friends and enemies turn traitor- and lead him there by a secret path — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly. — Josh Lanyon

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like. — Aaron Klug

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom. — Michelle Franklin

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit. — John Hagee