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" » Archimedes
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.»
Author: Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Archimedes, gently, lever, levers, multiplied, racking, tapped
«Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions»
«The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Archimedes, sacrificed, schoolboy, schoolboys, simplest
«I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that . . . the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| Keywords:
Apostle, Apostle Paul, Archimedes, Paul, Sculptor, Socrates, tentmaker, The Apostle
«YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! --Polydore Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Archimedes, assassin, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, Cassandra, clover, clovers, delivering, endowing, figs, fulcrum, Golden Age, homer, silken, snore, snores, snoring, The Golden Age, thistle, thistles, whistles
«Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
absentminded, accent, Archimedes, commands, engines, lever, levers, mathematical
«The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.»
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.
