Adage Synonym Quotes

#1. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down ... I was a very public failure.

Steve Jobs

#2. In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.

Pliny The Younger

#3. Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,
than to overcome the pain caused by it.
Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,
why men forget their prehuman ancestor.

Toba Beta

#4. Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

Kate Adie

#5. When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

Sarah Vaughan

#6. Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.

John Vane

#7. Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Dave Hickey

#8. The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

William Shakespeare

#9. I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

Nick Hornby

#10. Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

#11. If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

Chris Rock

#12. You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.

Marianne Williamson

#13. Not everything can be told in words, certain things it's better never to tell.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. I am for lowering taxes.

Sarah Steelman