Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Topics:
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 topics)
(Click a letter to view the topics)
Letter "C" » Civilization
«Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization»
Author: Florence Nightingale
(Humanitarian, Nurse)
| About:
Civilization,
Hospitals
| Keywords:
hospitals, intermediate
«If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power»
«Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.»
Author: Lance Morrow
(Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Civilization,
Writing
| Keywords:
casual, encephalogram, handwriting
«In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world»
Author: Mary Heaton Vorse
| About:
Chance,
Children,
Civilization,
Living
| Keywords:
analysis, by the way, in the last analysis
«If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.»
Author: Orson Welles
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
cave, cave in, Cave of the, eating, girlfriends, impress, in the raw, meat, raw, raw meat, squatting
«If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Liberty,
Terrorism,
War
| Keywords:
barbarians, The Barbarians
«In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Business,
Civilization,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
exemption, honored, rewarded
«If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
co-ordinate, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, designate, designated, designates, essentials
«If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.»
«In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
