“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.”
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
Political slogan, quoted in Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam : A Personal Memoir (1972) by Jean Sainteny, p. 172
Variant translation: Nothing is more valuable than freedom and independence.
World Marxist Review: Problems of Peace and Socialism (1979), p. 91
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
As quoted in Vietnam: The Betrayal of a Revolution https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/10/20/vietnam-the-betrayal-of-a-revolution/baef22ef-5ee7-43f0-97d3-7dc02ab24533/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.865c3958cb61 (20 October 1991), by Bui Tin
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Speech at Aylesbury, Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association (21 September 1865), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 356
1860s
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”
Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint
§ 70
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)