Quotation Explorer - 'Finer'

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? - George Price
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. - William Shakespeare
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
had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.{Edison's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} Thomas A. Edison - He
You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. - Woodrow Wilson
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863) - Alexander Smith
The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. - Mark Twain
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. - Woodrow Wilson
I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me. - M.C. Humphreys
Wisdom is finer than pearls. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. - Woodrow Wilson
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. - Virginia Woolf
fortune has no era finer than this moment - J. Lavan
Can women imagine anything finer than to experience centuries and millennia with the beloved husband in a cozy home in reverent attention to the inner workings of creative motherhood?
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed. - Henry James
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. - Virginia Woolf
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson
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
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - Aristotle
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
Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. - Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer - John Keats
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