“It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.”
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
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“3461. More than enough is too much.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
9 October 1746
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
#114
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Children need admiration rather than affection.”
Celia Green (1935) British philosopher
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
“Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.”
Robert Ferrigno (1947) American writer
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
“The folly of the clever is always more than that of the dull.”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch April 380
“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 120
“Offending people is better than no reaction at all.”
Matthew Bellamy (1978) English singer-songwriter
«The world according to Matt Bellamy» — Kerrang! (April 2006) http://mapage.noos.fr/maa3/press/interviews_kerrangAPR06.html
“Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,
With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
“Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.”
Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician
April 4, 2006.[citation needed]
2000s
“Life gets higher ratings than TV.”
Paul Glover (1947) Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American politician
http://www.paulglover.org/greenpresident.html (Green Party presidential manifesto), January 2009.
“Honest work is much better than a mansion.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 82
“In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)
“There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
“Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 416.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.”
Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
XXXIX, line 16
Carmina
“Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 865
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave