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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. — Sam Rayburn

Tonight, the music was already loud enough to paralyze the finer points of her personality. — Maggie Stiefvater

I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother. — Cassandra Clare

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. — David Low

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. — Leo Tolstoy

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. — Michel De Montaigne

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. — Mark Twain

Some people prefer the finer things in life, I'm alright just hanging out with the ghost of Vincent Price — Wednesday 13

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle.

Food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5 — Frans De Waal

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece. — Ted Nugent

As with life's finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed. — Branch Isole

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls! — Franz Schubert

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul. — Joshua Reynolds

There was no finer young man, said the people of Maycomb, than Henry Clinton. Jean Louise agreed. — Harper Lee

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice. — Richard Mottram

Books are a finer world within our world. — Alexander Smith

...champagne was an exception. Drinking it is simply telling life that its finer moments are appreciated. — Gwenda Bond

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. — Mark Hyman

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. — Vida Dutton Scudder

I don't want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me. — M.C. Humphreys

Even if you bar my way,
even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair. — Wislawa Szymborska

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person. — Naomi Shihab Nye

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom. — Ronald Reagan

Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress. — Manfred Kyber

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world! — Douglas MacArthur

The irony is that for poor people like us, an education at Notre Dame is both cheaper and finer. We — J.D. Vance

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer — John Keats

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. — John Keats

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves? — Oscar Wilde

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. — Frank Knox

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — D.H. Lawrence

Only in a library did she feel completely capable of collecting her finer feelings and recuperating from such a wearying day. — Gail Carriger

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body. — Jeremy Collier

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? — George Price

that the truth is finer and that the only answers each of us hears are to the questions we are capable of asking. — Zia Haider Rahman

As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets. — W.Chan Kim

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach. — Rick Reilly

Million pieces of glass..more finer..upto the verge of disappearness..den a new reality ..life so called time travel through wormhole — Sunil Sharma

I know there is no finer thing than your dew on my tongue." Dew? We'd have to talk about love words in the future. — Ruby Dixon

And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face ... — Walter Scott

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. — Garry Kasparov

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge — William Wordsworth

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! — Frank Gorshin

Books are a finer world within the world. — Alexander Smith

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace. — Ben Stein

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. — William Shakespeare

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. — Swami Vivekananda

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. — Winston Churchill

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body. — Swami Vivekananda

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. — Peter Schjeldahl

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn

I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again. — William Daniels

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life. — Milton S. Hershey

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings ... — Mary MacLane

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket. — Will Rogers

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person. — Shinichi Suzuki

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times. — Henry James

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose. — Mahatma Gandhi

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. — Plato

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details. — Bailey Vincent

I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh. — Fatty Arbuckle

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. — Woodrow Wilson

How much finer things are in composition than alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No finer, greater gift in the world than that ... when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. — Homer

Wisdom is finer than pearls. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The harder the life, the finer the person — Wilfred Thesiger

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. — C.S. Lewis

All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Tom Spanbauer

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. — Iggy Azalea

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's. — Katharine Hepburn

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article. — John Grierson

There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in. — Johnny Evers

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer. — Mark Twain

The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different. — Jane Addams

Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? — Salman Rushdie

I love the finer things. — Pierce Brosnan

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand. — Will Durant

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear. — Henry David Thoreau

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds. — Russell Conwell

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde

I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually. — Claire Danes

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can. — Albert Schweitzer

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman. — Paul Hoffman

I wish I could say I'm low maintenance, but I like some of the finer things in life ... like a toothbrush. — M.A. George

The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be. — Steve Winwood

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops. — John J. Pershing

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. — Cesare Pavese

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's. — Mark Twain

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you. — Yoshida Kenko

The hotter the furnace the finer the gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart. — Nash Buckingham