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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
— Florence Nightingale
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
[Give me the splendid silent sun] — Walt Whitman
[Give me the splendid silent sun] — Walt Whitman
The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.
— Lawrence Kudlow
We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, - this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;
— Alexandre Dumas
Of all the rewards of virtue, ... the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.
— Ruth Benedict
The banquet was very splendid, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say 'thag you very buch'.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn't it a splendid thing that there are mornings?
— L.M. Montgomery
... what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
— Louisa May Alcott
What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.
— J. David Smith
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
— Gustave Flaubert
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
— James Henry Breasted
The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
— Doug Larson
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider - Oh, you have already run off Splendid.
— Cassandra Clare
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
— Prince Philip
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
— John Maynard Keynes
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
— Martial
A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
— Denis Waitley
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.
— Jean Houston
It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care.
— Jacqueline Carey
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
— Gustave Flaubert
My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth. — Anne Sexton
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth. — Anne Sexton
While finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.
— Felix J. Palma
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.
— Francis Bacon
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.
— Robert Doisneau
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
— L.M. Montgomery
Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't.
— Adam Santo
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
— Georges Cuvier
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
— Oscar Wilde
The shades of colours are splendid.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.
— Jeremiah
I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins
— Oscar Wilde
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
the splendid manhood and womanhood of Italy
— Maria Gentile
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend ... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
— Ian McKellen
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper) ...
— Louisa May Alcott
What a splendid little war!
— John Hayes
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
— Rick Perlstein
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
— Marilynne Robinson
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
— Rudyard Kipling
Fasting men and fasting women, God has prepared forgiveness and a splendid wage.
Quran-AlAhzab(35) — Anonymous
Quran-AlAhzab(35) — Anonymous
be brisk, be splendid, and be public.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father.
— Pat Conroy
The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
As the boy looked at it, my thing moved and he whispered "It is splendid! Do let me try its love-making" ...
And I was too polite to disobey. — Henry M. Christman
And I was too polite to disobey. — Henry M. Christman
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
— George Mikes
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Splendid couple - slept with both of them.
— Maurice Bowra
Life is a spiritual splendid journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.
— Samael Aun Weor
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Hooray!' he cried, jumping up on seeing them, 'this is splendid!
— Kenneth Grahame
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.
— Reginald Horace Blyth
Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.
— Jack London
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
— Juvenal
I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo
— Louisa May Alcott
Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.
— Aunguttara Nikaya
...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman
— John Fowles
I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
— Beatrix Of The Netherlands
He unrolls names like a splendid carpet.
— James Salter
She's a few dances short of a full card.
— Mary Matthews
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
— Lord Chesterfield
If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Charles Spurgeon
A splendid sacred season!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ... — Moliere
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ... — Moliere
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!
— James Elroy Flecker
Sunset and sunrise are two splendid movies that you can watch for seventy or eight years every day!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
— Winston Churchill
Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.
— Herbert Kaufman
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
— Immanuel Kant
The joy of this day is splendid.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
— Evelyn Waugh
Believe me, England's prisons are full of splendid people.
— Paul Theroux
Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.
— Thomas Wolfe
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
— William Faulkner
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
— Manfred Von Richthofen