Tolerably Good Quotes

#1. WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; ... also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#3. There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

Cyril Connolly

#4. Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually, he offered to wake you up himself, but since its five a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.

Cassandra Clare

#7. The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

Will Cuppy

#8. War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Michael Moore

#10. Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I

Rachel Cohn

#11. Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#12. When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

PJ Harvey

#13. Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

Ron Paul

#14. Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm.

David Levithan

#15. To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Elbert Hubbard