The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select. — E. Merrill Root Copy Share Image
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
What kind of man reads Playboy? He is fastidious about his appearance, his home and his possessions. He wants as much sex… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good,… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup,… — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
