“Better sexy and racy
Than sexist and racist”
“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”
“Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.”
"Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
As quoted in Florilegium, I.22, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 396
Florilegium
“It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.”
Variant: I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.
Source: Eragon
“Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.”
Zardari's frustration on Pakistani media during an address to businessmen from NWFP, Islamabad (2009-01-20).
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).
“What else is the help of medicine than love?”
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
“The mode of death is sadder than death itself.”
XI, 91.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.”
1960s, Understanding Media (1964)
“Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.”
Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is better to work out than rust out.”
Even at the age of 102 he said this as quoted in [Our Leaders, http://books.google.com/books?id=YwTh-vjSFXUC&pg=PA51, 1989, Children's Book Trust, 978-81-7011-701-8, 63]
“Tone of voice is more crucial than words.”
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 25.
“Hasten slowly. Run faster than beauty.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
“872. Better be alone than in bad Company.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”
#685 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Sinking faster than a boat without a hull.”
Sonnet
Urban Hymns (1997)
“Only Kaka is better than Luka Modrić.”
http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/bilic-only-kaka-better-tottenhams-modric-188026 (2008)
