Tolerably Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. — Friedrich Schiller
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts. — Philip Sidney
My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live… — Jonathan Swift
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in… — Fred Melamed
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat… — Ambrose Bierce
But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the… — Ann Radcliffe
All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and… — Karl Philipp Moritz
We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair… — William Allen White
Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better — Elbert Hubbard
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is… — Nathaniel Chapman
There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education. — John Stuart Mill
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. — Mark Twain
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest… — Aldous Huxley
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long… — J. William Fulbright
As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself… — Susan Sontag
I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in… — Howard Pyle
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of… — Joshua Reynolds
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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