Excellent Quotes - Page 27

• Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

  Terence McKenna

  Kind, Building, Plant

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• Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Beautiful, Growth, Celebration

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• Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

  Steven Michael Quezada

  Children, Home, School

  "'Breaking Bad' Actor Steven Quezada Will Take on New Role on Albuquerque School Board" by Kacy Ray, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2013.

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• The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

  James Frain

  Acting, Boards, Abbey

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• 'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

  Katherine Parkinson

  Family Guy, Guy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

  Rudy Wiebe

  Men, Mirrors, People

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• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Thinking, Circles

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• A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Children, Practice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

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• Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Wind, Criticism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.55

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• As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Generosity, Twenties

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• What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Judging, Crime

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• That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Character, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.79

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• Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Time Passing, Pastime

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

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• The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Passion, Desire

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.236

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• Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Party, Interesting

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.54, Vintage

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• Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

  John Sterling

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Reality

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.127

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• Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

  Ben Jonson

  Mean, Remembrance, World

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.140

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• It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Errors, Perfect

  Henry Fielding (1782). “The Beauties of Fielding: Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.38

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• It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Boat, Currents

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.405, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

  Thomas Paine

  Mistake, Enemy, Gains

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.32, Ravenio Books

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• Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

  John Selden

  Glasses, Water, Pennies

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• Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

  Aeschylus

  Doctors, Intelligence, Hunger

  Aeschylus, (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides”, p.96, A&C Black

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• [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Village, Pounds, Ifs

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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