“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.”
“The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.”
Source: The Red Dice
“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”
Source: Lolita
“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”
According to The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 91 ISBN 0312340044 , the cover of a trade magazine once credited this observation to Churchill, but it dates back well into the nineteenth century, and has been variously attributed to Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, w:Theodore Roosevelt, w:Thomas Jefferson, w:Will Rogers and Lord Palmerston, among others. One documented use in Social Silhouettes (1906) by George William Erskine Russell, p. 218 wherein a character attributes the saying to Lord Palmerston.
Misattributed
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Journal entry (14 May 1915), p. 48
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
“The name of a person you love is more than language.”
“There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.”
“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Speech at Aylesbury, Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association (21 September 1865), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 356
1860s
“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 1: Kiritsubo
“Don't hope more than you're willing to work.”
“Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.”
Source: Zaatardiva
“History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.”
The New York Times, January 18, 1981 Quotation of the Day http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/nyregion/quotation-of-the-day-227621.html?scp=28&sq=Brzezinski&st=nyt.
Variant: History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
