“Two things greater than all things are,
The first is Love, and the second War.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 9
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“Two things greater
Than all things are;
And the first is love
And the second is war.”
From Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of the King's Jest; quoted in the opening of Rival Caesars
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Than all things are;
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“Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 4
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James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4
“To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai
Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.
XVII, 6
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer
Life and Human Nature.
Afterthoughts (1931)
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Variant: if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
"The Palace of the End" (2003)
Context: There are two rules of war that have not yet been invalidated by the new world order. The first rule is that the belligerent nation must be fairly sure that its actions will make things better; the second rule is that the belligerent nation must be more or less certain that its actions won't make things worse. America could perhaps claim to be satisfying the first rule (while admitting that the improvement may be only local and short term). It cannot begin to satisfy the second.
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787–1872) French physician
p, 125
Researches on the effects of bloodletting... (1836)
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
As quoted in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007) by Brian Kolodiejchuk
2000s