Fine Quotes - Page 2

• Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

  Pete Seeger

  Inspirational, Education, Humor

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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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• The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Death, Hate

  For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 43 (1940)

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• Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

  Andy Rooney

  News, Literature, Print

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• I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny, Wall, Flower

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• 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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• 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's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Insanity, Genius, Lines

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• My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

  Catherine Crier

  Dog, Children, Weather

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• If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

  William Hazlitt

  World, Speculation, Subjects

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.108

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Hope, Failure

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Intellectual, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Art, Way, Humans

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  Malcolm X

  Work, Long, Violence

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• I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

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• You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Law, Drug

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• The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

  Morley Safer

  Travel, Views, World

  Morley Safer (1990). “Flashbacks: on returning to Vietnam”, Random House Inc

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• To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Numbers, Unexpected

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• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Whales, Ants

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• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  Dar Williams

  Forgiveness, Night, Needs

  Song: My Friends

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• Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Worry, Helping

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1967, e-artnow

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