“To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.”
Variant: To Suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
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“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”
John Waters
(1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Source: Role Models
“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.”
Rien n'est plus lent que la véritable naissance d'un homme.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 258
“There's nothing better than cake but more cake.”
Harry Truman
(1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
William Blake
(1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Anonymous saying, dating back at least to its citation in Natural Theology (1836) by Thomas Chalmers, Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15, where the author states: "It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense."; it has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.
Misattributed
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
China Miéville
book
Un Lun Dun
Source: Un Lun Dun
“The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
(1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: The Children of the Stage (1899), Last paragraph.
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
“Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”
Mitch Albom
(1958) American author
The First Phone Call from Heaven
“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”
Gabriel García Márquez
(1927–2014) Colombian writer
“There is no God any more divine than Yourself.”
Walt Whitman
(1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“No one is better at not beating America than England.”
Jon Stewart
(1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
Variant: To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
Source: A Clockwork Orange