It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "L" » Lord Chesterfield Quotes
«Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough»
«Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.»
«Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(
Diplomat,
Statesman,
Wit)
|
Keywords:
at most,
compose,
familiarity,
fits,
frequent,
indiscriminate,
jokes,
merry,
play a joke on,
respectable,
romp,
sink
«The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.»
«Few people do business well who do nothing else»
«In seeking wisdom, thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool»
«Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.»
«If you will please people, you must please them in their own way»
«Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never»
«The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man, who cannot believe in anything else, are both insane»