Proverbial Quotes
59 quotes by 58 authors
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As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out,…
— Jo Brand
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Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
— Julie Burchill
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More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts…
— Eric Alterman
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The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a…
— Felix Dennis
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is…
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the…
— Philip Caputo
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Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
— Albert Einstein
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I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.
— Mick McCarthy
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
— John Jay Chapman
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If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that…
— Dwayne Johnson
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You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when…
— Sinead O'Connor
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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to…
— Emma Goldman
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My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry…
— Rudolph A. Marcus
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Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,…
— Paul Flory
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I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history,…
— Romeo LeBlanc
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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other…
— James Joyce
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Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Who Wrote These Proverbial Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 59 Proverbial Quotes, led by these top contributors: