Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings
Welcome to the biggest collection of quotations, proverbs and sayings! If you are looking for a specific quotation, proverb or saying, check our universal database. We have collected over 150,000 inspirational quotations, funny quotations, movie quotations, famous proverbs and cute sayings that we would like to share with you. Find quotations, proverbs and sayings for any occasion and view them all for free.
Browse quotations by author, topic or keyword.
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 "S" » shams
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.»
Author: Eric Gill
| Keywords:
added, classical, Daily Telegraph, fleet, fleetest, Fleet Street, Gothic, pill, real thing, sham, shams, steel, sugar, telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph, tower, Tower Bridge
«Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.»
«Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.»
Author: Matthew Lotti
| About:
Day,
Fighting,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
activities, pepper, peppered, peppers, previous, repetitious, shams, simulacra, simulacrum
«Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.»
«Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
ardor, clarity, curiosity, intolerance, remarkable, ruthlessness, shams
«Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.»
Author: Johnny Rotten
(Musician)
| Keywords:
advertising, advertising agencies, advertising agency, agency, a bit, bit, corporate, free agency, MTV, paraded, parading, plus, pluses, sham, shams, The Agency, The Video, video, videos
«There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
diamonds, sham, shams, vice versa
«If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them.»
«Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
detached, detaching, eyed, informed, mystic, open-eyed, resignation, sham, shams
«For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
confesses, hypocritical, realities, rottenness, shams, smear, smeared, smearing, smears, veracity
Get access to over 800,000 college papers on the most popular topics for only $14.95/month.
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
