Finest Quotes

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

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

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

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

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

The finest wits have their sediment.

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

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

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

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

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

One of the things that I wanted was to be known as one of the finest MCs and I think the people gave me the respect I was looking for.

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

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!