Famous quotes containing the word excellent:
“I have had no other treasure in this world than to see you once perfect and complete, as much in virtue, honesty and wisdom, as in all free and honest learning, and so leave you after my death like a mirror representing my personyour fatherif not as excellent in fact as I would wish, certainly so in desire.”
—François Rabelais (14941553)
“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on ones head.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Ive tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. Id rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But Im sure I have contributed to false valuesas Stanley Woodward said, Godding up those ballplayers.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)