Top 376 Resemble Quotes & Sayings

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

Every production must resemble its author.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.

I resemble the father I once hated.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.