| "What a splendid head, yet no brain." »Aesop |
| "Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves." »Bruce Grocott |
| "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance." »Bruce Barton |
| "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling." »Walt Whitman |
| "Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world." »Lucy Montgomery |
| "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner |
| "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else." »Jose Ortega y Gasset |
| "The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." »Sallust |
| "Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds." »Benjamin Harrison |
| "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it." »Florence Nightingale |
| "Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup." »Sara Teasdale |
| "The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination." »Richard Hofstadter |
| "The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music." »Lewis Thomas |
| "Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle." »Annie Besant |
| "Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." »Joseph Addison |
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