Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Quotations

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. SwiftPapers 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.

Browse Topics

(Click a letter to view the 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

Maxim

«Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.»
«All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth»
Author: William Mathews | About: Maxim | Keywords: antagonists, half-truth, maxims
«May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.»
«It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Maxim | Keywords: unbecoming
«When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted»
«A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions»
«It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Maxim