Fine Things Quotes

72 quotes by 67 authors

Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of… — Khalil Gibran
Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip… — Jeremy Brett
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. — Winston Churchill
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. — Cesare Pavese
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. — Tim Cahill
There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring. — William Butler Yeats
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who… — Socrates
To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of… — James Krenov
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical,… — Socrates
I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing. — John Steinbeck
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is… — J. William Fulbright
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are… — Tristan Wilds
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. — William Morris Hunt
I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of. — William Zinsser
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. — Minnie Maddern Fiske
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

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