“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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“Better sexy and racy
Than sexist and racist”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”
Margaret Peterson Haddix (1964) American author
“Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
"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.”
Christopher Paolini book Eragon
Variant: I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.
Source: Eragon
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain
“Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.”
Asif Ali Zardari (1955) politician in Pakistan
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.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
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 (1493–1541) Swiss physician and alchemist
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
“The mode of death is sadder than death itself.”
Martial book Epigrammata
XI, 91.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1960s, Understanding Media (1964)
“Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is better to work out than rust out.”
Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya (1860–1962) Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore
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.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 25.
“Hasten slowly. Run faster than beauty.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
“872. Better be alone than in bad Company.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
#685 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Sinking faster than a boat without a hull.”
Richard Ashcroft (1971) English singer-songwriter
Sonnet
Urban Hymns (1997)