Excellent

Excellent may refer to:

  • Excellence
  • Excellent ring, in mathematics
  • Excellent scheme, in mathematics
  • The Excellents, an early 1960s doo wop group
  • "Excellent.", Mr. Burns catchphrase on the cartoon The Simpsons

Famous quotes containing the word excellent:

    It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
    Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)

    I’ve tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I’d rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I’m sure I have contributed to false values—as Stanley Woodward said, “Godding up those ballplayers.”
    The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    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.
    Baruch (Benedict)