Fine Quotes

• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) act 1

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• A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Hands, Fool

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• But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

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• With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

  John McGraw

  Teamwork, Men, Order

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• There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

  Lynda Obst

  Perseverance, Lines, Madness

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• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  William Henry Harrison

  Nature, Military, Exercise

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

  William Shenstone

  People, Envy, Reason

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.141

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• It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Excess, Worth Living

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Positive, Witty

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

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• Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Golf, Worry

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• When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Talking, Acting, Actors

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• California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Laughter, California

  American Magazine Dec. 1945, p. 120

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• Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Witty, Humorous

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feelings, Enthusiasm, Flash

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• Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

  Zac Efron

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  Barry Goldwater

  Business, Stupid, Men

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• Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Reading Poetry, Remembrance

  Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238

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• Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

  John Keats

  Hate, Men, Grace

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.760, e-artnow

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• What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Facts, Destination, Know How

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• Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  William Whewell

  Bending, Lines, Force

  Elementary Treatise on Mechanics ch. 4 (1819). This is an instance of unintentional rhyme and meter. After the passage's poetical qualities were pointed out to him,Whewell altered it in subsequent editions of the book.

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• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  John Wooden

  Friendship, Art, Book

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• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, Tasks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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