Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they… — Plato Copy Share Image
To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing.… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better;… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Halt snorted derisively. "Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be," he replied. "It's a fine thing when an old man like… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of… — Edward Eager Copy Share Image
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow — Brian Koslow Copy Share Image
I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. — John Keats Copy Share Image
It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also… — Plato Copy Share Image
They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether… — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
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