Proverbial Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey. — Mick McCarthy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell

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