Words similar to quam

Example sentences for: quam

How can you use “quam” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Quam penes, arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi.
The eight English proverbs cited above thus have respective equivalents as follows: Plus valet manibus passer quam sub dubio grus It is better to have a sparrow in the hand than a crane in doubt; Sero quam nunquam melius Better late than never, literally Late than never better; Sic fuit, est et erit: similis similem sibi quaerit Thus it was, is and will be; like seeks like for itself: notice the rhyme; Currens per prata non est lepus esca parata A hare running through the meadows is not a ready meal: a nice variation on the bear and his skin; Donati non sunt ora inspicienda caballi Gift horses do not need their mouths looking into: Scopae recentiores semper meliores New brooms are always best; Factum infectum fieri nequit A deed not done cannot happen: a negative equivalent to the English positive What is done cannot be undone as an alternative to the spilt milk; Roma non fuit una die condita (but of course, of course).
Thomas Curley (Bridgewater State College) uses his Account of Corsica as an example of a travel book in the same genre as Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Smollett's Travels through France and Italy . It is also a tract on political liberty, and Curley quotes the epigraph from the Corsican rejoinder to a Pope in 1320: “Non enim propter gloriam, divitias aut honores pugnamus, sed propter libertatem solummodo quam nemo bonus nisi simul vita amittit.”