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 Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
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

Seneca Quotes

«Old age is an incurable disease»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: incurable
«There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it»
Author: Seneca
«Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: selfsame
«When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.»
Author: Seneca
«No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: enjoys
«War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.»
«March to the battlefield, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: battlefield
«Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.»
Author: Seneca
«The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.»
Author: Seneca | About: Fortune | Keywords: bows
«Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: gaze, matched