Excellent Quotes

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Sometimes even excellent Homer nods. — Horace
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. — Martial
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. — Ouida
The reality is more excellent than the report. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which… — William Shakespeare
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead… — William Hazlitt
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion… — Michelangelo
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York. — Howard Pyle
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character… — Joshua Reynolds
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent… — Alfred Stieglitz
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent… — Giorgio Vasari
As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens,… — Bill Smith
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from… — John Mason Good
It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing… — Sandy Alderson
Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances. — Bill Rodgers
I have excellent information and proof relating to conduct of the FBI, .. I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this case is an… — Zacarias Moussaoui
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often… — C. D. Broad
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce. — Saint Francis de Sales
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all… — Theodore Roosevelt
The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel. We are committed… — Gerald R. Ford
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief,… — Steve Jobs

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