Finer Quotes

217 quotes by 179 authors

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! — Frank Gorshin
The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be. — Steve Winwood
Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it… — Theophrastus
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his… — Confucius
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect… — Margaret Gatty
There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket. — Will Rogers
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. — Sam Rayburn
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal;… — Theodore Roosevelt
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one… — Frank Knox
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. — Frank Knox
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach. — Rick Reilly
All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul… — Hermann Hesse
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species,… — Charles Dickens
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. — Elbert Hubbard

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