Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

Research Database of Quotes

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
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

Thomas Browne, Sr. Quotes

«A rich man's joke is always funny»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | About: Funny | Keywords: rich man
«Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: Society of
«For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.»
«Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | About: Life | Keywords: terrible, truest, valor
«By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | About: Compassion | Keywords: relieve, relieving
«Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.»
«What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.»
«The religion of one seems madness unto another»
«Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: diamonds
«Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner»

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 Next »