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 Keywords

(Click a letter to view the keywords)
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

temperance

«Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.»
«Health consists with temperance alone.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Health | Keywords: temperance
«A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.»
«Joy and Temperance and Repose - Slam the door on the doctor's nose»
«Joy, temperance, and repose slam the door on the doctor's nose.»
«Abstinence is the surety of temperance»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Abstinence | Keywords: abstinence, sureties, surety, temperance
«Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.»
«Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Abstinence | Keywords: abstinence, temperance
«Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty»
«Abstinence is easier than temperance»
Author: Seneca | About: Abstinence | Keywords: abstinence, temperance