Finest Quotes - Page 4

• I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Flower, Men, Battle

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

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• In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beautiful, Giotto, Debt

  Giorgio Vasari, George Bull (1978). “Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists”, Viking Pr

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• There is the finest line between data and evidence.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Data, Lines, Ability

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• Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Tough, Very Good, Critics

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• The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army

  "Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud, together with the journal kept by Gourgaud on their journey from Waterloo to St Helena", (pp. 279 - 280), 1903.

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• The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

  John Muir

  Lying, Garden, Lakes

  John Muir (2006). “Our National Parks”, p.163, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Flower, Scotland

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.69

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• Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Soul

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• Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.

  William Walsh

  Art, White, Achievement

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• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Ideas, Moral

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• To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Atmosphere, Gold

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.181

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Genius, Modesty, Little Women

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Flower, Culture

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Trouble

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• Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Medicine, Nausea

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• There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Greatness, Special

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• It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Hands, Achievement

  Karl Pearson (2011). “The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discipline, Goal, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, War, Japan

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• In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: "The best violins in all Italy." Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: "The Best Violins In All The World!" At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: "The best violins on the block."

  Freda Bright

  Family, Block, Simple

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• Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nature

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.64

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• If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

  Denis Diderot

  Learning, Games, Skills

  Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode... A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring even to the stranger...Well put together scrapbooks and photo albums have warmed more hearts than any bound book... Without a good scrapbook, much that's memorable in life is forgotten or damaged or lost.

  Don Aslett

  Book, Memorable, Heart

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• To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Grateful, Heart

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