Proverbs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4,425 Proverbs Quotes
“Who could be happy and alone or good?”
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“Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.”
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“Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.”
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“With but a plank between them and their fate.”
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“With but a plank between them and their fate.”
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“With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.”
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“With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.”
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“Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
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“Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
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“He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.”
Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron Quotes
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 45)
“Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.”
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Source: Corsair (canto II, st. 15)
“And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.”
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Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 117)
“Sweet is revenge--especially to women.”
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Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 124)
“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”
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Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 83)
“. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.”
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Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 172)
“A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.”
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Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 60)
“Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.”
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Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 12)
“She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis, For which small thanks are still the market price, Even where the article at highest rate is.”
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Source: Don Juan (canto XV, st. 29)
“'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
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Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 51)
“Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.”
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Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 51)
“Better a bad excuse, than none at all.”
William Camden Quotes
Source: Remaines--Proverbs (p. 293)
“An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.”
William Camden Quotes
Source: Remains
“Coming events cast their shadows before.”
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“Coming events cast their shadows before.”
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“No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.”
Henry Carey Quotes
Source: Translation of Dante