Need an original paper?
Buy Essay Now
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 Authors
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Mark Twain Quotes
«I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating»
«The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artificiality, caprices, the Convention, whim
«You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy»
«But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start»