Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you… — Socrates 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
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America. — Edward Abbey 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
It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our… — Pierre Curie 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
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
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and… — Willie Nelson 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
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
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
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
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
It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the… — Francois de la Noue Copy Share Image
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact… — James Krenov Copy Share Image
Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool… — Francis Kilvert 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
Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The… — Jeremy Brett 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
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. — Joan Blades 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
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings –… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! — Naomi Shihab Nye 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
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