Quotes on Fine Things

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.