Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children… — Romeo LeBlanc Copy Share Image
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
If ever there was a proverbial truth, it's the more you give, the more you get. Give and start experiencing a life… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his… — Dick Latvala Copy Share Image
I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“That proverbial glass of water that contains fifty percent of its capacity is either half full or half empty, depending on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
We can’t heal what we don’t feel. We can’t have a future until we fully inhabit our present. It’s like the proverbial… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
