Stronger than pain quotes (page 210) | Quotes of famous people

“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

“Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

“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

“A grouse deserves better than to be shot on the ground.”

George Bird Evans (1906–1998) American writer

An Affair with Grouse (1982)

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