(27 quotes found)
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
Douglas Hofstadter
“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
Kwame Nkrumah
“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.”
Charlotte Bronte
“To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Seeing is different than being told.”
African Proverb
“I found them in the proverbial old trunk, ... One of them may be the oldest phone directory in town. It's just a single sheet of paper with typed numbers on it.”
Robert Farmer
“My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter”
Abraham Lincoln
“An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.”
Jeffrey Hirsch
“We had no option. We were up against the proverbial brick wall.”
Ken Wells
“It's the proverbial leak in the dike. Does that (Japan trip) make it more likely? Yes.”
Neal Pilson
