We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.
They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts.
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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 average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter verified paper trail.
It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.
There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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 Death the Humour of saying what I think.
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
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 is not always the best.
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 the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."
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