Proverbial Quotes - Page 3

• I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

  David Sarnoff

  Stars, Wagons, Electrons

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• There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

  Neil Gaiman

  Warning, Chicks, Concerned

  "Stardust". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1998.

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• As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

  Jo Brand

  Shining, Example, Fans

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• It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Men, Light, Views

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• The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next.. to being rich...

  Felix Dennis

  Encouragement, Money, Mistake

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• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Men, Phrases

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• The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Philosophy, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.27, 谷月社

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• And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

  James Joyce

  Lying, Deceit, Done

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.700, Delphi Classics

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• Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Law, Worry

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• Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

  Dan Maskell

  Tennis, Calm, Iceberg

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• I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

  Mick McCarthy

  Football, Sick, Feelings

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• Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

  Albert Einstein

  Uplifting, People, Needles

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• There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.

  Philip Caputo

  Attitude, Military, War

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• There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Motherhood, Experience

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• Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community, unfortunately, has done little to dispel. Happenstance usually plays a part, to be sure, but there is much more to invention than the popular notion of a bolt out of the blue. Knowledge in depth and in breadth are virtual prerequisites. Unless the mind is thoroughly charge beforehand, the proverbial spark of genius, if it should manifest itself, probably will find nothing to ignite.

  Paul Flory

  Blue, Views, Play

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• The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.

  Joseph Hertz

  Gratitude, Winning, Israel

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”

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• I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

  Emo Philips

  Years, Gynecologists, Patient

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.

  Jerry Stahl

  Art, Writing, Ass

  "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Gold, Pot

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• To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.
  [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stones, Folly, Disgrace

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• I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Grateful, Squares, Rights

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near. God repeatedly pledges his proverbial presence to his people. Don't assume God is watching from a distance. Avoid the quicksand that bears the marker "God has left you!" Don't indulge this lie. If you do, your problem will be amplified by a sense of loneliness. It's one thing to face a challenge, but to face it all alone? Isolation creates a downward cycle of fret.

  Max Lucado

  Distance, Loneliness, Lying

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is not one big mass of people with a proverbial beer in its hand, keeping the country down. That is not my experience of it and I don't labor under that misconception. And we have a long tradition of coming together through music in our country.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Beer, Hands

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• We can’t heal what we don’t feel. We can’t have a future until we fully inhabit our present. It’s like the proverbial Groundhog Day. Most people don’t live 70-90 years; they live the same year 70-90 times because they keep regurgitating an incomplete present.

  Derek Rydall

  Groundhog Day, Years, People

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• There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

  Livy

  Enmity, Should, Immortal

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XL, section 46,

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