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

William Morris Quotes

«Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful»
Author: William Morris (Designer, Poet) | Keywords: In Your House
«If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.»
«Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.»
«The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.»
Author: William Morris (Designer, Poet) | Keywords: details, genuine
«Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.»
«If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.»
«Give me love and work - these two only»
Author: William Morris (Designer, Poet) | About: Love, Work
«When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.»
Author: William Morris (Designer, Poet) | About: Heart, Home, Writers | Keywords: home in, subtly
«History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created.»
«It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last»

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 Next »