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Excellent Quotes:

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An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

- George du Maurier

source: George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

topic: Apples, Peaches, Excellent, Funny Food

I have an excellent internal compass.

- Hugh Bonneville

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Compass, Excellent, Internals

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

- Jennifer Lee Carrell

source: Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.57, Penguin

topic: Knowledge, Quality, Excellent, Omniscience

No doubt that he will make an excellent senator.

- Jeri Ryan

source: "Ryan file a bombshell". www.chicagotribune.com. June 22, 2004.

topic: Doubt, Excellent, Senators

Home's the most excellent place of all.

- Neil Diamond

source: Twitter post from Mar 01, 2009

topic: Home, Excellent

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

- Philip Sidney

source: Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.11

topic: Grace, Prison, Excellent

Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

- Philippe Kahn

source: "Borland Bought by Micro Focus for $75M" by Jennifer Pittman, www.santacruzsentinel.com. May 06, 2009.

topic: Outcomes, Fit, Excellent

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

- Rita Levi-Montalcini

source: "Nobel-winning biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103" by Frances D'Emilio, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

topic: Lonely, Excellent, Relation

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

- Robert Bolt

source: "Fictional character: King Henry VIII". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.

topic: Taste, Taste In Music, Excellent

Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.

- Cherise Sinclair

source: Cherise Sinclair (2013). “If Only”, p.363, VanScoy Publishing Group

topic: Weapons, Logic, Excellent

Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

- Timberlake Wertenbaker

source: Timberlake Wertenbaker (2014). “The Ash Girl”, p.59, Faber & Faber

topic: Preparation, Excellent, Laughed

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

- Katherine Parkinson

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family Guy, Guy, Excellent

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

- Paul Gauguin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Excellent, Cooks, Spoilt

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

- Aeschylus

source: Aeschylus (1922). “Four Plays of Aeschylus”

topic: Science, Numbers, Excellent

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

- Linus Torvalds

source: "10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds". www.linuxfoundation.org. April 6, 2015.

topic: Excellent

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, V, 22, p. 605-09, 1922.

topic: Thinking, Poet, Excellent

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.83, Ravenio Books

topic: Taste, Excellent, Contemplation

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.65, Harvard University Press

topic: Speech, Excellent, Indignation

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

topic: Virtue, Excellent, Capacity

The reality is more excellent than the report.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Reality, Excellent, Reports

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.97, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Way, Excellent, Way Of Love

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

- Richard E. Byrd

source: Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.139, Island Press

topic: Solitude, Habit, Excellent

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" (1893) See Arthur Conan Doyle 39

topic: Classic, Easy, Excellent

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

source: "Self-Styled 'Epigrammist' Cuts To The Quip" by Aaron Epstein, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2, 1997.

topic: May Not Be Perfect, Excellent, I May Not Be, I May Not Be Perfect

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

- William Morris

source: William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

topic: Artist, Determined, Excellent, Workmen

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [274]

topic: Excellent, Lows, Gentle, Cordelia

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1398, Oxford University Press

topic: Men, May, Excellent

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]

topic: Life, Long, Excellent, Figs

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

topic: Modesty, Time Passing, Excellent

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

- James F. Cooper

source: "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

topic: Fire, Journalism, Excellent

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