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" » lust
«The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.»
«The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.»
Author: John Chancellor
|
Keywords:
avenues,
Avenue of,
covetousness,
gluttony,
live over,
lust,
neighborhood,
sloth,
The cross,
thoroughfare,
thoroughfares
«Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.»
«The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.»
«The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
|
Keywords:
difficulty,
exact,
lust,
lusted,
lusting,
lust after,
measure,
necessity
«Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.»
«The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master»
«The pride of the peacock is the glory of God./ The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. / The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. / The nakedness of woman is the work of God.»
Author: William Blake
(
Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
|
Keywords:
bounties,
bounty,
goat,
lust,
nakedness,
peacock,
peacocks,
The Bounty,
The Goat,
wrath
«The expense of spirit in a waste of shameIs lust in action.»
«Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.»