Excellent Thing Quotes

19 quotes by 14 authors

• The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a… — Chanakya
• I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment… — Thornton Wilder
• Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing. — Richard E. Byrd
• Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. — James Russell Lowell
• Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach. — George du Maurier
• Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle… — Anatole France
• You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did… — Barbara Pym
• A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He… — H.G. Wells
• I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. — Thornton Wilder
• Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge — Sir Philip Sidney

Who Wrote These Excellent Thing Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 19 Excellent Thing Quotes as follows:

• 4 Excellent Thing Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 2 Excellent Thing Quotes by Thornton Wilder
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by Richard E. Byrd
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by James Russell Lowell
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by George du Maurier
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by Ouida
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by C. D. Broad
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by Anatole France
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by Barbara Pym
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by H.G. Wells
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by Sir Philip Sidney
• 1 Excellent Thing Quote by Chanakya