Splendid Quotes

323 quotes by 255 authors

I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is… — Rajneesh
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. — Rajneesh
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall… — William Henry Hudson
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. — Unknown Author
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things,… — Anton Chekhov
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. — Denis Waitley
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for… — Andrew Young
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at… — George Will
I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not… — Lady Gregory
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends,… — Jacob Epstein
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All… — Rose George
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid… — Heber J. Grant
I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less… — Jim Webb
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. — Rick Perlstein
I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task. — Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. — Arnold H. Glasow
There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man… — John Buford
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep… — Rudolf Otto
I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid… — Basil Rathbone

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