Resemblance Quotes - Page 6

• History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Damage Is Done, History Repeats Itself, Cunning

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Food, Book

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• While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Light, Resemblance Is

  "On Photography".

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• Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

  Michael Medved

  Weather, Complaining, Television

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• For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them bear any resemblance to the truth, including the rumor that I am planning on resigning.

  Rick Renzi

  Land, Rumor, Bears

  "Renzi could resign soon" by Patrick O'Connor, www.politico.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

  R. H. Tawney

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian of our times is but a shallow display of true sainthood. Yet, we put millions of dollars behind ‘movements’ to perpetuate this lower form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Men, Average

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• People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

  Fanny Burney

  Air, People, Together

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3768, Delphi Classics

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• Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

  Richelle Mead

  Two, Doe, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.140, Penguin

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• Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

  Socrates

  Errors, People, Deception

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• To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They hated Rome and her device, arma et leges, with an inhuman hatred. True, Rome had leges, laws, like the Jews. But in their very resemblance lay their difference; for the Roman laws were merely the practical application of the arma, the arms...but without the arms, the leges were empty formulae.

  Joseph Kastein

  Differences, Rome, Law

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• Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Being Generous, Perversity, Generous

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wall, Rocks

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• I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Ends, Vulture

  Groucho Marx (2007). “The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to secure happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own.

  George Washington

  Heart, Pride, Government

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• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Glasses, Hands

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• In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

  Benjamin Rush

  Kings, Father, Men

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• No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Ideas, Coherence

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.106

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• Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

  John Denham

  Gold, Guilt, Foam

  John Denham, “Cooper's Hill”

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• There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

  Lauren Willig

  Reality, Men, Perfect

  Lauren Willig (2007). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.112, Penguin

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• If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to a dictatorship.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Bears, Responsible, Ends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted. Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up." "We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring.

  Tamora Pierce

  Spring, Yellow, Looks

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.315, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Distance, Men

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• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Photography, Art, Powerful

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• Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Merit, Deceiving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.66, Booklassic

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