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 "P" » proverbial
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
| Keywords:
absentminded, coherence, droll, finish off, finish up, German, lecture, nonplussed, phenomenon, professors, proverbial, ramble, ramble on, rambling, rattle off, rattling, recursion, stack, stacked, stacks, string, tales, verb, verbs
«It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.»
Author: Kwame Nkrumah
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, camel, colonial, erstwhile, eye of a needle, hump, humped, liberated, needle, pass through, proverbial, territory, the Hump
«There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences»
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.
