A Quote by David Niven

Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.

David Niven

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Alcohol Champagne Companionship Maximum Minimum Offers

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David Niven
English - Novelist
March 1, 1909 - July 29, 1983

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

Nido R Qubein

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

Maurice Bejart

We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.

Al Gore

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

George Soros

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

Bruce Lee

You need minimum color for maximum effect.

Jay Maisel

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.