Fine Quotes

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.

Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford.

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

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

I'm a really good fine tuner.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

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

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.