80 Superlatives Quotes
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Famous Superlatives Quotes
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. — Aristotle
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Better the best of the worst than the worst of the best. — Yiddish Proverbs
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness — Stephen Fry
The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love. — Neale Donald Walsch
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible — C. S. Lewis
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Only the mediocre are always at their best. — Jean Giraudoux
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there. — Samuel Insull
Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought. — Cleopatra
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle. — Heraclitus
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. — Mark Twain
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. — Philip James Bailey
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. — Aristotle
Short Superlatives Quotes
- People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella. — Dorothy Parker
- A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution — Claude C. Hopkins
- Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Women speak in the superlative. — Emile Souvestre
- It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire
- Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well. — Murray Walker
- He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act. — Johann Ludwig Tieck
- I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. — Sophie Swetchine
Find The Sunshine Quotes
The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus. — Hudson Taylor
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun. — David Gilmour
Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance. Find the questions that only you know how to ask and The answers that you are content to not know. — Mary Anne Radmacher
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. — Ovid
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love. — Ozzy Osbourne
The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world. — Gary Holland
Words cannot ease the pain you are feeling right now But just wanted to let you know that we are thinking about you And praying for your pain to ease And for you to find sunshine when the dark clouds have passed. — Margaret Jones
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent. — Robert Browning
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. — Mario Fernandez
You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems. — Wyclef Jean
People Writing About Superlatives
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Aristotle |
1252 | 18854 |
 J. R. R. Tolkien |
752 | 8835 |
 Yiddish Proverbs |
143 | 2723 |
 Stephen Fry |
263 | 1032 |
 Neale Donald Walsch |
709 | 2973 |
 C. S. Lewis |
1957 | 19120 |
More Superlatives Quotes
I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There’s no way to tell anyone who hasn’t been through it, there’s no way to explain it to anyone who hasn’t tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine — Edie Sedgwick
Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. It's already been a while now that he has been outstanding. He's more than decisive in every way. That he's capable of doing everything that he does at his age is something impressive, that doesn't make any sense. — Pep Guardiola
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. — Percy Wynham Lewis
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. — Tryon Edwards
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard. — Simon Greenleaf
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation. — Owen Feltham
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways. — Ansel Adams
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme
Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow. — Johann Gottfried Seume
I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine. — Edie Sedgwick
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends. — Ruth Bernhard
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze — Pablo Neruda
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make — Claude C. Hopkins
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me. — William Faulkner
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella. — Dorothy Parker
Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left - there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He's done movies, TV, done this, done that - what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him alive. — Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. — Isabella Bird
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives — Nancy Mitford
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. — Hristo Stoichkov
To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal. — Ronnie Barker
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting. — Frank Schoonmaker
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. — Robertson Davies
I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. — Matt Mullenweg
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe. — Tim O'Brien
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm. — E. B. White
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States. — Denton Cooley
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest. — Daniel Starch
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative. — A. J. Liebling
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American. — John Gunther
Allen Anderson speaks from the heart about subjects he loves; this enthralls audiences everywhere. His outlook is realistic but invariably positive, encouraging everyone to expect the best. Audience feedback is replete with superlatives. — Henry Koster
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well. — Hortense Odlum
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it. — H. P. Lovecraft
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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