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Familiar Quotations

Storming

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.–Addison

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.–Louisa May Alcott

Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.–Anonymous

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.–Raul Armesto

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.–Bertolt Brecht

Have fun storming the castle!–The Princess Bride

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.–Epicurus

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.–David Lloyd George

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.–Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.–Jerome Klapka Jerome

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Storming 1
• Storming – "Fierce" 2
• Storming – "Fiercely" 2
• Storming – "Passionately" 3
• Storming – "Rough" 3
• Storming – "Violently" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Storming 4
• Storming – "Alone" 27
• Storming – "Best" 28
• Storming – "Brief" 28
• Storming – "Broke" 29
• Storming – "Called" 29
• Storming – "Calm" 30
• Storming – "Captain" 31
• Storming – "Children" 32
• Storming – "Closes" 32
• Storming – "Clouds" 34
• Storming – "Cold" 35
• Storming – "Coming" 36
• Storming – "Dark" 40
• Storming – "Days" 41
• Storming – "Doubtless" 46
• Storming – "End" 46
• Storming – "Enemies" 47
• Storming – "Evening" 48
• Storming – "Eyes" 49
• Storming – "Far" 50
• Storming – "Father's" 51
• Storming – "Few" 51
• Storming – "Found" 53
• Storming – "French" 54
• Storming – "Go" 54
• Storming – "Great" 55
• Storming – "Ground" 58
• Storming – "Grow" 59
• Storming – "Gusts" 60
• Storming – "Hands" 61
• Storming – "Having" 62
• Storming – "Heard" 63
• Storming – "Heart" 64
• Storming – "Home" 65
• Storming – "Hope" 66
• Storming – "Hour" 66
• Storming – "Houses" 67
• Storming – "Inclement" 68
• Storming – "Keep" 69
• Storming – "King" 69
• Storming – "Lands" 70
• Storming – "Left" 71
• Storming – "Little" 72
• Storming – "Live" 74
• Storming – "Look" 75
• Storming – "Love" 77
• Storming – "Lies" 77
• Storming – "Men" 78
• Storming – "Met" 81
• Storming – "Month" 82
• Storming – "Morning" 83
• Storming – "Mother's" 84
• Storming – "Nature" 84
• Storming – "Night" 85
• Storming – "Nothing" 89
• Storming – "Old" 90
• Storming – "Once" 91
• Storming – "Opened" 92
• Storming – "Passage" 93
• Storming – "Passions" 93
• Storming – "Passionately" 94
• Storming – "Past" 94
• Storming – "Peaceful" 95
• Storming – "Place" 96
• Storming – "Poor" 97
• Storming – "Position" 98
• Storming – "Presently" 98
• Storming – "Rainy" 99
• Storming – "Returned" 100
• Storming – "Roman" 101
• Storming – "Ran" 102
• Storming – "Sea" 103
• Storming – "Season" 106
• Storming – "Sheltered" 106
• Storming – "Ship" 107
• Storming – "Silence" 108
• Storming – "Sitting" 109
• Storming – "Snow" 110
• Storming – "Soon" 111
• Storming – "Spirit" 111
• Storming – "Storm" 112
• Storming – "Story" 113
• Storming – "Sun" 113
• Storming – "Think" 114
• Storming – "Thunder" 116
• Storming – "Thus" 117
• Storming – "Times" 118
• Storming – "Vessels" 119
• Storming – "Walk" 120
• Storming – "War" 121
• Storming – "Waves" 122
• Storming – "Weather" 123
• Storming – "Winter" 126
• Storming – "Words" 128
• Storming – "Years" 129
• Storming – "Young" 130
• Nonfiction Usage 132
• Script Usage 132
• Journalism Usage 132
• Governmental Usage 138
• Bibliographic Usage 139
• Encyclopedic Usage 151
• Lexicographic Usage 168
• Index 203