Admirable

Famous quotes containing the word admirable:

    The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)