Finest Quotations | Page 4

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them

The finest day i ever hadwas when tomrrow never came.

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

The finest wits have their sediment.

The finest poetry was first experience.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.