The word “thing” is a lovely thing; it can be used for so many different … things. Have fun with this collection of proverbs and quotes about things.
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Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
Stephen HawkingSubstantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard TaftSunt pueri pueri, puerilia tractant. (Children are children, children do childish things)
P. StrikOur Latin teacher would say this when we were misbehaving in class.
Take no notice of the stupid things people say.
That's what I do: I drink and I know things.
(unknown author)Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Tyrion Lannister
The beauty of things must be... that they end.
Jack KerouacThe best things in life are free.
We don't have to pay for valuable things like love, friendship and good health.The best things in life are not things.
John RuskinThe biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
Bertrand RussellThe chief use of strangers is to tell things to.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Hangman's Holiday
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
S. GudderThe fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
ArchilochusThe most important things in life aren't things.
Anthony J. D'AngeloThe nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs: dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About the forest.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Oscar WildeThe only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
Keith RichardsThe past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Lesley P. HartleyThe trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Goldberry
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan EllisonThe universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden PhillpottsThe world is full of things that exist … !
Richard DawkinsThe world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
Scott WesterfeldThere are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. LewisThere are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Quoted: Dumbledore
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William ShakespeareThere are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlinThere were insects, too, hideous crawling things, with eyes that stared upon him, and filled the very air around, glistening horribly amidst the thick darkness of the place.
Charles DickensSource: The Pickwick Papers
These things are just plain annoying. After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual 'food' out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.
Miss PiggieThings can always get better.
Things can always get worse.
Things can be both bad and better.
Hans RoslingThings fall apart.
Things that can't go on forever don't.
(unknown author)Known as Stein's Law. (Similar to: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.)
Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
Gautama BuddhaThree things you should never break: promises, trust, and someone’s heart.
Time is what life is made of, and one metric of progress is a reduction in the time people must devote to keeping themselves alive at the expense of the other, more enjoyable things in life.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
Bill BrysonTogether we can do great things.
Mother TeresaTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark TwainVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince LombardiWhat attributes make things not what they aren't?
(unknown author)When I kiss you, it will be an important event - one of those things which stand out among their surroundings like the first time you tasted li-chee.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Have His Carcase
Quoted: Lord Peter Wimsey
When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
Drew BarrymoreWhen trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
Dave BarryWhy, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis CarrollSource: Alice in Wonderland
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergYou have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan