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

signify

«It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else»
Author: Samuel Rogers (Poet, Wit) | Keywords: signify
«Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: / Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.»
«Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.»
«For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: prisoner, signify, withal
«At last, however, his conversation became unbearable--a foul young man is odious, but a foul old one is surely the most sickening thing on earth. One feels that the white upon the hair, like that upon the mountain, should signify a height attained.»
«Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard | About: Life, Meaning | Keywords: gorge, gorged, lacking, signify
«A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.»
«Among those who have endeavoured to promote learning and rectify judgment, it has long been customary to complain of the abuse of words, which are often admitted to signify things so different that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles»
«I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: searcher, signify
«Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind»

Pages: 1 2 Next »