Quotations

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. SwiftPapers 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.

Quotations Authors Topics Keywords

Browse Keywords

(Click a letter to view the keywords)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N

P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

oak

«If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.»

Author: Charlie Brown | Keywords: batch, comes out, dumbest, explains, oak, oak tree, peek, peeking, poison, poison oak

«Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree»

Author: Ethiopian Proverb | Keywords: enters, needle, oak, oak tree, spreads

«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»

Author: Thomas Kyd | Keywords: bull, cleave, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, Flint, flints, haggard, hawking, hawks, in time, lure, lured, lures, luring, oak, pierced, pierces, piercing, savage, shower, softest, stoop, sustains, wedge, wedges, yoke, yoked, yokes

«How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.»

Author: Andrew Marvell (Poet, Politician, Satirist) | Keywords: amaze, bays, bay tree, crowned, herb, incessant, oak, oak tree, palm, palm tree, vainly

«Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.»

Author: William Arthur Ward | Keywords: acorn, acorns, blossom, blossoming, bulb, faith, garden, giant, lovelier, lovely, oak, seed, sees, The Blossoms

«His heart was mailed with oak and triple brass who first committed a frail ship to the wild seas.»

Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: frail, mailed, oak, triple

«In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak»

Author: James Russell Lowell (Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: oak

«Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories, or, as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases, and the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the»