Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent
Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
. . . discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-
God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.
I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.