Top 99 Finer Than Quotes
#1. Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...
Walt Whitman
#3. Wish not for treasure you can hold,
No gleaming jewels, bright and cold,
For finer still than pearl or gold,
The treasure of a tale well told ...
Brian Holguin
#4. And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
Homer
#5. Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.
Mervyn Peake
#6. We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves
Edward George, Baron George
#7. There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle.
#9. What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].
Harlan Ellison
#11. 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
#12. I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#13. There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.
Greg Bear
#14. It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens
#15. We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,
his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,
fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. I like you, Miss York, because you are wicked, and there can be no finer blessing for a man than a good and wicked wife. Wouldn't you agree?
Victoria Dahl
#17. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
Oscar Wilde
#18. 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
#19. Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
Isak Dinesen
#20. Separation isn't time or distance
it's the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords
Nazim Hikmet
#21. Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back
Kenny Chesney
#23. The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
Mark Twain
#24. She is so beautiful. My Rose. Finer than sculpture, softer than sand. Rose, I'm kissing you now. Oh God, I have to kiss her. I will die if I don't kiss her, I know that now. It is a fact. I will die. It will kill me.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#25. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#26. One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.
Sherwood Anderson
#27. Fortune has no era finer than this moment
J. Lavan
#28. 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
#29. If everything we do in life is to be measured in terms of money, then life would be a very poor thing. The greater ambitions and desires of mankind are actuated by something deeper and finer than the desire to amass material wealth.
Frank Smythe
#30. I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
William Jones
#31. We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
Woodrow Wilson
#32. There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
George Benson
#33. And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen King
#34. There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.
Rick Reilly
#35. In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
Benjamin Cardozo
#36. There was no finer young man, said the people of Maycomb, than Henry Clinton. Jean Louise agreed.
Harper Lee
#37. Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah.
Steve Kluger
#38. In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.
Edna Ferber
#39. Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?
Oscar Wilde
#40. the gift is having a daughter more gentle
than you are, whose laughter is finer
than yours.
Charles Bukowski
#41. There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
Will Rogers
#42. 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
#43. There is no finer company than inspiration, but its very goodness will leave you heartsick when it goes. So do not waste time asking it to wipe its feet. Embrace it at the treshold.
Benjamin Wood
#44. When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.
John Adams
#45. There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.
Henry M. Cist
#46. [how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.
Thomas More
#47. Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
Charles Baudelaire
#48. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from; The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer, This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
Walt Whitman
#49. 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
#50. There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.
Ronald Reagan
#51. 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
#53. No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
#54. But every human path leads on to God;
He holds a myriad finer threads than gold,
And strong as holy wishes, drawing us
With delicate tension upward to Himself.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#55. there could not possibly be a finer devotion or one of greater merit than that of the Holy Rosary, which is like a second memorial and representation of the life and passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
St. Louis De Montfort
#56. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare
#57. I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
Fatty Arbuckle
#58. To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.
Byron Katie
#59. There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
Ted Nugent
#60. I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.
Jeannette Walls
#61. 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
#62. I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.
Trevor McDonald
#63. Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#64. 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
#65. The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.
Jane Addams
#66. For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#67. There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
Garry Kasparov
#68. I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.
Paul Hoffman
#69. The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.
Charles Ives
#70. Iced champagne was poured out. Emma shivered all over as she felt it cold in her mouth. She had never seen pomegranates nor tasted pine-apples. The powdered sugar even seemed to her whiter and finer than elsewhere.
Gustave Flaubert
#71. If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#72. Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
Salman Rushdie
#73. The glittering filament, finer than a hair, is far less than a denier in thickness. When a ray of sunlight struck it at the window at which I was examining it, I saw the thread blaze with all the colours of the spectrum.
Leena Krohn
#74. The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill
#76. I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.
Geraldine Brooks
#77. That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
Mark Twain
#78. I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
Katharine Hepburn
#79. 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
#80. I could focus again on why we'd all come here in the first place. I could focus on Scott. How handsome and distinguished he looked in his dark gray suit, a finer cut than I'd seen him in before. He looked like the man he said he was going to be, and I thought, I will never doubt him again.
Therese Anne Fowler
#81. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
William P. Alford
#82. There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.
Hermann Buhl
#83. The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.
Swami Vivekananda
#84. 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
#85. Never were finer snares for womens' honesties
Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's
Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd
To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing
Thomas Middleton
#86. It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well ... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner
#87. The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.
Henry David Thoreau
#88. A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
William Lyon Phelps
#89. All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.
Hermann Hesse
#90. Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
John Keats
#91. There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
Yoshida Kenko
#92. If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
Vance Havner
#93. 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
#94. There are few finer or more innocent pleasures than talking books to one who knows. There may be joy in heaven- I am told there is- but the evidence is not conclusive, and I'll take mine here in my library.
A. Edward Newton
#96. Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
G.H. Hardy
#97. If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
Ben Stein
#98. 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
#99. There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.
Will Durant
