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 Keywords

(Click a letter to view the keywords)
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

gilding

«There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.»
«A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent»
«In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain»
Author: Phaedrus | Keywords: block, gild, gilded, gilding, gilds, splendid
«I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.»
«A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.»
«But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly / `To gild refin?d gold, or paint the lily'.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: gild, gilding, gilds, lily
«Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: gilding
«Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight»
«Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.»
«For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have»