Quotes with examples

  • The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
  • There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
  • It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
  • Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
  • With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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  • Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Benny Green Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Baba Kalyani Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Robert Cecil Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Augustus Hare Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Bryan Batt God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Barry Ritholtz History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Edward Young Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Jeffery Chamberlain In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
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  • Paul Auster It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
    Oracle Night (2009) 35
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bee Wilson Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Billy Graham Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bob Beauprez The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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