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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very… — Oscar Wilde
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the… — Kenny Smith
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of… — Albert Einstein
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could… — Patrick Henry
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the… — Wallace Stevens
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from… — Henri Mignet
Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly.… — Courteney Cox
The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair… — Havelock Ellis
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… — George Washington
I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge… — Unknown Author
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on… — George Monbiot
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form… — Oscar Wilde
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will… — Oscar Wilde
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the… — John Keats
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly… — Charles Darwin
[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring?… — Dian Fossey
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make… — Donald Fagen
You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the… — Kristian Bush
Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it.… — Guy Clark
I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I… — Matthew Macfadyen
Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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