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

William Allingham Quotes

«Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a hunting For fear of little men»
«Oh, bring again my heart's content,Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!»
«Alas! in winter, dead and dark,Where can poor Robin go?»
«Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.»
«If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.»
«Poor Paddy of all Christian men I thinkOn basest food pours down the vilest drink.»
«I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?''»
«Robin's here in coat of brown,And scarlet breast-knot gay.»
«I believe in Success,And in Comfort no lessI believe all the rest is but patter.»

Pages: « Previous 1 2