Proof Quotes - Page 36

• The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.

  Zero Mostel

  Heart, Source, Remove

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• I am Living proof that you don't have to be an insider to be knowledgeable about Fashion and have an impact on the industry.

  Susan Gregg

  Fashion, Impact, Knowledgeable

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• On tour, its either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. Youre just looking for any proof that youre not completely alone.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Ex Boyfriend, Tweet, Exes

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• The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

  David Letterman

  Paris, Flags, Lasts

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• I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

  Justine Larbalestier

  People, Giving, Teens

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• I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

  Aimee Mann

  Thinking, Great Writers, I Can

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• All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

  George Eliot

  Writing, Errors, Furniture

  George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877”

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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Action, Fame

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• The proof is in the pudding.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pudding

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• A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

  Thales

  Mind, Prudent, Multitudes

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Blessing, Love Is, Alive

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• This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grieving, Opposites, Mind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIII, p. 326-29, 1922.

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• trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

  Ann Landers

  Race, Stupidity, Cards

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Talking, Lows

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Giving, Grace, Doe

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• Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Genius, Want

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Children, Thinking, Irritation

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Able, Talent

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• If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Men, Tears

  Burlesque of Lope de Vega's lines 'Si a quien los leones vence...', in Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 67

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• Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

  Leigh Hunt

  Believe, Book, Race

  Leigh Hunt (1849). “A Book for a Corner”, p.7

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• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Musical, Style

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.116

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• Oh, popular applause! what heart of man
  Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
  The wisest and the best feel urgent need
  Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales;
  But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas!
  With all his canvas set, and inexpert,
  And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.100, Routledge

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• It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Support

  Quoted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1899) Apelles

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