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"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." »Bobcat Goldthwaite
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"The White House is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman
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"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them." »Lloyd George
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"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done the worst is that which delays them." »David Lloyd George
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"We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them." »Anatole France
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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." »Jane Austen
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"The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it." »Sylvia Bremer
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"Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum
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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet." »Isadora Duncan
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"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power." »William Henry Harrison
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"Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief." »Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." »Winston Churchill
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"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly." »Aldous Huxley
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"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." »Henry David Thoreau
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"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." »Vince Lombardi
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"Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now You may be on the very edge of winning" »Guy Lynch
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue." »Henry James
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"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith." »John Foster Dulles
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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself." »Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
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"Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child." »A. S. Neill, Summerhill
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"God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands." »George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
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"The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century." »Sidney Madwed
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