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Statement type·Metaphor, analogy and simile✕clear

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu · 400 BC One swallow does not make a spring. — Aristotle · 322 BC Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. — Marcus Aurelius · 180 Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895 No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793 All 21 quotes →

Religious literature16 quotes

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. — Jesus · 60 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu · 400 BC The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Tertullian · 197 All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. — 1st Peter 1:24 · 65 As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more. — Psalm 103:15-16 · 450 BC The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. — John Milton · 1671 All 16 quotes →

Tragedy (play)13 quotes

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — William Shakespeare · 1599 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare · 1616 Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597 Our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last. — Sophocles · 442 BC Let me have war, say I. It exceeds peace as far as day does night. It's sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible. — William Shakespeare · 1616 When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. — William Shakespeare · 1616 All 13 quotes →

Comedy (play)12 quotes

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. — William Shakespeare · 1598 If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602 Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare · 1616 All that glisters is not gold— Often have you heard that told. — William Shakespeare · 1598 For secrets are edg'd Tools, And must be kept from Children and from Fools. — John Dryden · 1667 Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve · 1693 All 12 quotes →

Political speech9 quotes

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill · 1946 If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. — Frederick Douglass · 1857 The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land. — Mao Zedong · 1957 The nation is sick, trouble is in the land, confusion all around... But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968 We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave-to the ancient enemies of man-half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival for us all. — Adlai Stevenson · 1965 McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952 All 9 quotes →

History (play)8 quotes

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — William Shakespeare · 1599 Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. — William Shakespeare · 1597 My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. — William Shakespeare · 1592 Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught. — William Shakespeare · 1592 For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. — William Shakespeare · 1595 To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily…is wasteful and ridiculous excess. — William Shakespeare · 1616 All 8 quotes →

Drama6 quotes

But winter is coming. — Jon Snow · 2015 I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994 A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — Tyrion Lannister · 2011 When the snows fall, and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. — Sansa Stark · 2017 You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes it's smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks. — Junior Soprano · 2001 Rule number one: Throw in your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the hand. — Jo · 1998

Political literature6 quotes

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790 Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. — Edmund Burke · 1790 Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. — John Adams · 1765 Laws, like houses, lean on one another. — Edmund Burke · 1760 In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy; and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behavior in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion. — Michael Oakeshott · 1962

Comedy5 quotes

Windows are the eyes to the house. — Andy Dwyer · 2012 Elaine, breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1997 Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Derek Zoolander · 2001 In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Ralphie Parker · 1983 You're like an injured young fawn who's been nursed back to health and is finally going to be rereleased into the wilderness. — Beanie · 2003

Fantasy5 quotes

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 But winter is coming. — Jon Snow · 2015 A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — Tyrion Lannister · 2011 When the snows fall, and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. — Sansa Stark · 2017 There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they're just touched by something extra. — Edward Bloom · 2003

Drama (TV)4 quotes

But winter is coming. — Jon Snow · 2015 A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — Tyrion Lannister · 2011 When the snows fall, and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. — Sansa Stark · 2017 You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes it's smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks. — Junior Soprano · 2001

Autobiography and memoir3 quotes

All experience is an arch, to build upon. — Henry Adams · 1907 Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline). — Graham Greene · 1980 For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly. — Langston Hughes · 1940

Comedy (film)3 quotes

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Derek Zoolander · 2001 In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Ralphie Parker · 1983 You're like an injured young fawn who's been nursed back to health and is finally going to be rereleased into the wilderness. — Beanie · 2003

Crime3 quotes

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. — Travis Bickle · 1976 To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. — Alonzo · 2001 You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes it's smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks. — Junior Soprano · 2001

Epic poem3 quotes

Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks. — Homer · 700 BC Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings. — Virgil · 19 BC The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. — John Milton · 1671

Fantasy (TV)3 quotes

Comedy (TV)2 quotes

Crime (film)2 quotes

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. — Travis Bickle · 1976 To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. — Alonzo · 2001

Detective fiction2 quotes

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works. — Dashiell Hammett · 1930 A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. — Raymond Chandler · 1949

Drama (film)2 quotes

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994 Rule number one: Throw in your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the hand. — Jo · 1998

Greek tragedy2 quotes

Our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last. — Sophocles · 442 BC But ever-ageing Time teaches all things. — Aeschylus · 424 BC

Historical literature2 quotes

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up. — Studs Terkel · 2003 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert Maynard Hutchins · 1954

Narrative poem2 quotes

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593 Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. — William Shakespeare · 1594

Psychological literature2 quotes

The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go. — Sigmund Freud · 1933 If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. — Abraham Maslow · 1966

Travel writing2 quotes

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642 A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. — Henry David Thoreau · 1849

Allegory1 quote

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. — George Orwell · 1945

Biography1 quote

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North? — Abraham Lincoln · 2012

Biography (film)1 quote

Children's literature1 quote

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. — Eugene Field · 1889

Christmas1 quote

In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Ralphie Parker · 1983

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