Great Quotes - Funny Quotes - Love Quotes
Be inspired by our amazing collection of free proverbs, sayings and great quotes by famous artists, authors, writers, poets, philosophers and business people. The quotation database contains over 150,000 funny quotes, love quotes and motivational quotes that will do for any occasion. The database is constantly updated with new quotes, proverbs and sayings. Make sure to check our quotes regularly.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse 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
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "A" » anachronism
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
anachronism, good-for-nothing, proven, single bed, slept, songwriter, songwriters, struck
«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
additional, all day long, anachronism, aspirant, deity, designed, divine being, dog days, fat, Fed, feed upon, idle, incarnations, overflow, overflows, place of worship, purchase, recognition, seasoned, smaller, soak, soaked, soaking, Solomon, Solomonic, spin, subsidiary, surplus, surpluses, survival, tail, takes in, The Dog, the Incarnation, toils, tolerant, wag, wagging, wags, wherewith, worked
«I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Opera
| Keywords:
anachronism, equivalent, opera, ponderous, smoking
Sign up for the most comprehensive database of 800,000 pre-written papers and use them for your research. Order authentic term papers, essays, research papers, dissertations on any topic written by qualified writers.
