Resemble
To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
To liken; to compare; to represent as like.
To counterfeit; to imitate.
To cause to imitate or be like.
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Resemble Quotations
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
Shirley Chisholm
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Denis Diderot
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Rene Magritte
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
Maurice Chevalier
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
Sydney J. Harris
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
Resemble Translations
resemble in Danish is ligne
resemble in Dutch is lijken op, gelijken, lijken
resemble in French is ressemblez, ressemblons, ressembler, ressemblent
resemble in Italian is assomigliarsi
resemble in Portuguese is assemelhe-se
resemble in Spanish is asemejarse, parecerse
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