Stronger than pain quotes (page 235) | Quotes of famous people

“Helping myself is even harder than helping others.”

Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist

Quoted in: Hiebert, Murray, Hiebert, Éilish (1999) Powerful Professionals : Getting Your Expertise Used Inside Your Organization. p. 216
Source: The secrets of consulting, 1985, p. 18

“Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.”

Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) participant in the Antinomian Controversy

As quoted in American Criminal Trials Vol. I (1841) by Peleg W. Chandler, p. 26

“There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.”

Herbert N. Casson (1869–1951) Canadian journalist and writer

Herbert N. Casson cited in: The International Chemical Worker Vol. 13-15 (1953). p. 192
1950s and later

“4900. There is more pleasure in loving, than in being belov'd.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman) (1748–1810) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 245.

“Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

Last words, to his niece, according to A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison (1865) by Paul Jennings, p. 20; his testimony on his death reads:
:: I was present when he died. That morning Sukey brought him his breakfast, as usual. He could not swallow. His niece, Mrs. Willis, said, "What is the matter, Uncle Jeames?" "Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear." His head instantly dropped, and he ceased breathing as quietly as the snuff of a candle goes out.
Variant:
I always talk better lying down.
Last words, according to a listing of "Last Words of Famous Americans" in A Conspectus of American Biography (1906) edited by George Derby, p. 276; no prior publication of such an attribution has been located; in recent years, without any sources cited, the two divergent accounts of his last words have sometimes been combined into the form: "Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better lying down."
1830s

“More people worship the rising than the setting sun.”

Pompey (-106–-48 BC) Roman general

Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
Life of Pompey

“It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonour.”

Girolamo Gigli (1660–1722) Italian dramaturge

È meglio vestir cencio con leanza, che broccato con disonoranza.
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act II, Sc. V. — (Credenza.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.