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

The school

«Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.»
«Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius»
«America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.»
«A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium»
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
«As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us»
«But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.»
«According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.»
«Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Example | Keywords: The school
«God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board»

Pages: 1 2 3 4 Next »