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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. — Florence Nightingale

Yes, magnifliant. Magnificent, brilliant, splendid, superb. I could go on. — Ally Broadfield

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
[Give me the splendid silent sun] — Walt Whitman

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come. — Lawrence Kudlow

We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, - this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin; — Alexandre Dumas

Of all the rewards of virtue, ... the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training. — Ruth Benedict

The banquet was very splendid, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say 'thag you very buch'. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn't it a splendid thing that there are mornings? — L.M. Montgomery

... what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. — Louisa May Alcott

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. — C.S. Lewis

What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans. — J. David Smith

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts. — Gustave Flaubert

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted

The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish — Jonathan Safran Foer

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider - Oh, you have already run off Splendid. — Cassandra Clare

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. — Prince Philip

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. — John Maynard Keynes

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial

A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid. — Ernest Hemingway,

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. — Denis Waitley

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health. — Jean Houston

It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care. — Jacqueline Carey

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. — Gustave Flaubert

My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth. — Anne Sexton

While finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid. — Felix J. Palma

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. — Francis Bacon

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been. — Sophocles

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid. — Elizabeth Gaskell

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. — Robert Doisneau

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. — L.M. Montgomery

Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't. — Adam Santo

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology. — Georges Cuvier

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. — Oscar Wilde

The shades of colours are splendid. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be generous with yourself. Don't stop short of splendid things. — Willa Cather

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. — Oliver Goldsmith

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes. — Jeremiah

I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins — Oscar Wilde

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley

the splendid manhood and womanhood of Italy — Maria Gentile

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend ... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. — Ian McKellen

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper) ... — Louisa May Alcott

She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure. — Steve Maraboli

What a splendid little war! — John Hayes

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. — Rick Perlstein

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature. — Marilynne Robinson

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling

Fasting men and fasting women, God has prepared forgiveness and a splendid wage.
Quran-AlAhzab(35) — Anonymous

be brisk, be splendid, and be public. — Sarah Orne Jewett

If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father. — Pat Conroy

The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness. — Debasish Mridha

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan

As the boy looked at it, my thing moved and he whispered "It is splendid! Do let me try its love-making" ...
And I was too polite to disobey. — Henry M. Christman

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state. — George Mikes

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ... — Louisa May Alcott

It'd be awful if the world exploded, it's so wonderfully splendid — Tove Jansson

Splendid couple - slept with both of them. — Maurice Bowra

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done. — Elbert Hubbard

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop

Life is a spiritual splendid journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying. — Samael Aun Weor

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. — C.S. Lewis

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been. — Sophocles

Hooray!' he cried, jumping up on seeing them, 'this is splendid! — Kenneth Grahame

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden. — Jack London

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. — Albert Camus

I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo — Louisa May Alcott

Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. — Aunguttara Nikaya

...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman — John Fowles

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task. — Beatrix Of The Netherlands

He unrolls names like a splendid carpet. — James Salter

She's a few dances short of a full card. — Mary Matthews

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Lord Chesterfield

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

A splendid sacred season! — Lailah Gifty Akita

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it. — Vincent Van Gogh

But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ... — Moliere

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars! — James Elroy Flecker

Sunset and sunrise are two splendid movies that you can watch for seventy or eight years every day! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. — Winston Churchill

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran. — Herbert Kaufman

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled. — Immanuel Kant

The joy of this day is splendid. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself. — Evelyn Waugh

Since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate. — Henry James

For me, liberalism simply means, live and let live. This is a splendid slogan — Raif Badawi

Believe me, England's prisons are full of splendid people. — Paul Theroux

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. — Thomas Wolfe

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible. — William Faulkner

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. — Manfred Von Richthofen