“Never promise more than you can perform.”
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Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.”
Arthur Ransome book Swallows and Amazons
Swallows and Amazons (Chapter 1), 1930
“Modesty is oftner mistaken than any other Virtue.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“5068. 'Tis better to suffer Wrong, than to do it.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Every cause produces more than one effect.”
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
On Progress: Its Law and Cause
Essays on Education (1861)
“…ingratitude is more common than you might think.”
Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian (1985)
“We must obey God rather than men.”
Luke the Evangelist one of the four evangelists
5:29 ESV
Acts of the Apostles
“There’s no better place to hide from intimacy than in a relationship.”
Neil Strauss book The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)
“There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.”
Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who
Doctor Who Confidential Series 2, Episode 5, "Cybermen" http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/confidential/index5.shtml (Doctor Who documentary series, 2005)
“Better a citizen in hell than a slave in New Jersey.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)
“I consider myself more exportant than important.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Shades of the World, by Vanna Bonta; quoted in American Chronicle. Vanna Bonta interview, Inventors Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful http://archive.is/20120718091208/www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101039 May 02, 2009
“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”
Laurence Hope India's Love Lyrics
Less Than the Dust
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)
“Hope is more patient than despair and so outlasts it.”
Yahia Lababidi (1973)
"Where Epics Fail: Aphorisms on Art, Morality & Spirit" (2018)
“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
"In the Cause of Architecture", in The Architectural Record (March 1908)
“It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.”
Philip Gibbs (1877–1962) English journalist and novelist
England Speaks http://books.google.com/books?id=bCMrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22It's+better+to+give+than+to+lend+and+it+costs+about+the+same%22&pg=PA328#v=onepage (1935)
“But some children have clearer vision than adults.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
Prisonner of Fire (1974)
“No force is more powerful -- or more multiple -- than the family.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 246.
“The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
Arthur Waley (1889–1966) British academic
Source: Translations, The Tale of Genji (1925–1933), Ch. 1: 'Kiritsubo'
“649. A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)