Search

Topics

Quotes

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)

“It's better to be kind than to be right.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“Done is better than good.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Words are sexier than flesh.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

“Memories are worse than bullets.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: There are worse prisons than words.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

“It is more than possible; it is probable.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“It is better to be feared than loved.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“The pencil is mightier than the pen.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Hotter than me? --Jace”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Nice is different than good.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

“Ending is better than mending.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“Forgiveness is better than revenge.”

Pittacus of Mytilene Greek sage

As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in Life of Pittacus, i. 76, citing Heraclitus as his source.
Pittacus made this remark to justify his release of his captured enemy Alcaeus.
According to William Shepard Walsh, in Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892), p. 392, Epictetus, quoting from the same source, gives the phrase thus: "Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is proof of a gentle, the other of a savage, nature."