“To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVI : The Guests; Helen Graham
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“I'm more of a realist, than a theorist”
M.I.A.
(1975) British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director
Video of Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swd4L4CU9GU to Dazed & Confused magazine (2010)
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“Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.”
Pythagoras
(-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Ideas are more powerful than guns.”
Tony Benn
(1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Wikinews interview with Tony Benn (8 August 2007), quote from approx 24min45 sec into interview.
2000s
“There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.”
Romain Gary
(1914–1980) French writer and diplomat
Interview (1970), republished in Le Judaïsme n’est pas une Question de Sang [Judaism Isn’t About Blood] (2008) by Les éditions de l’Herne, as quoted in "A Chameleon on Show" in Forward (12 January 2011) http://www.forward.com/articles/134609/
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
Non refert quam multos sed quam bonos habeas.
Seneca the Younger
(-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, Line 1
“Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.”
Richard Cecil (clergyman)
(1748–1810) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 423.
“Joy is more infectious than leprosy.”
Baba Amte
(1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker
Talking about the joy one gets working at his institution, Anandwan, a home for leprosy that was established by him, page=22
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“3017. It is sooner said than done.”
Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.”
Chester W. Nimitz
(1885–1966) United States Navy fleet admiral
Quoted in The Magnificent Mitscher by Theodore Taylor, p. 266
“Comedy is more personal than food.”
Jerry Seinfeld
(1954) American comedian and actor
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)
“I'm younger than Donald Trump.”
Paavo Väyrynen
(1946) Finnish politician
Presidential Election Campaign 2018
“There is no sentiment less aristocratic than that of nonbelief.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
(1754–1838) French diplomat
Reported in, Bernard, J. F., Talleyrand: A Biography. (1973), p. 605
“Vegetarians are hotter than meat-eaters.”
Oliver Sykes
(1986) British musician
"Bring Me The Horizon Slams Kfc With Original Art, PETA2 Giveaway" https://www.peta.org.uk/media/news-releases/bring-me-the-horizon-slams-kfc-with-original-art-peta2-giveaway/, interview with PETA (7 November 2006).
“There is more joy in giving than in receiving.”
Pope Benedict XVI
(1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.
2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008)
“Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. ”
Francis Bacon
(1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“It is better to be making the news than taking it. ”
Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 8 (p. 94)