Example Quotes

There is nothing so annoying as a good example. (Mark Twain)
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. View quote
James Madison
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. View quote
James Thurber
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. View quote
Alexander Pope
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. View quote
Edmund Burke
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about. View quote
Brandon Boyd
Example is not the main thing in life -- it is the only thing. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Example is leadership. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. View quote
Dave Barry
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. View quote
Mark Twain
An example is often a deceptive mirror, And the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, Is not always found written in things past. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. View quote
William Feather
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes Letter to von Humboldt, 1813. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The history of science is rich in the example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems. (Neil Armstrong)
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working. View quote
Peter Sellers
I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. View quote
Kristen Bell
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Example is always more efficacious than precept. View quote
Samuel Johnson