1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
“I think we were better as friends than husband and wife.”
On her relationship with Ibrahim Moussa, as quoted in Cameron Docherty, Interview: Nastassja Kinski - Still a daddy's girl, The Independent, September 26, 1997
“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death”
“477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.”
Statement soon after her husband's slaying in April 1968, as quoted in CNN obituary (January 31, 2006) http://www2.cnn.com/2006/US/01/31/king.obit.ap/
“There's more to life than books you know, but not much more”
from the song "Handsome Devil"
From songs
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
Context: For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
