“The first hundred thousand—that was hard to get; but afterwards it was easy to make more.”
John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) German-American businessman
Quoted in James Parton (1865), Life of John Jacob Astor
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Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Helen
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim
Source: The Passionate Pilgrim
“Easy writing makes hard reading.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
As quoted in Paris Was Our Mistress (1947) by Samuel Putnam, p. 128
“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
Ludwig Börne (1786–1837) German writer
Variant: Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
“Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard.”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: Dead Witch Walking
“Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.”
M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist
Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Quoted in "Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale" (1809) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 333, edited by George Birkbeck Hill; also quoted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, in the Avenged Sevenfold song "Bat Country", and in Kingdom S02E04.