Stronger than pain quotes (page 243) | Quotes of famous people

“Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.”

Clare Short (1946) British politician

Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118877270728215947.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

“They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres.”

Clifford D. Simak book Time and Again

Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter II (p. 14)

“There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“I was never less alone than when by myself.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

Vol. i. p. 117. Compare: "Never less alone than when alone", Samuel Rogers, Human Life; "In solitude, where we are least alone", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, Stanza 90.
Memoirs (1796)

“I have something more to do than to feel.”

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist

Letter to Coleridge (September 27, 1796), after the death of Lamb's mother.

“My honor is dearer to me than my life.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 1.

“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger (unpublished manuscript written 1902–1908)

“The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

#84
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”

Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic

Il vaut mieux avoir une méthode mauvaise plutôt que de n'en avoir aucune.
in Le Fil de l’épée.
Writings

“Halfway isn't all the way, but it's better than no way.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“Stonoga doesn't forget, Stonoga is worse than Stalin!”

Zbigniew Stonoga (1974) Polish businessman, video blogger, social and political activist

To CBŚ corrupt officers.

“There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.”

Samuel Beckett book Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”

Anton Chekhov book The Teacher of Literature

The Teacher of Literature (1894)

“Mean songs are still better than going postal”

Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist

"Sweet As Whole"
Lyrics, Once Upon Another Time (2012)

“Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!”

Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 48 - "At Encinitas In California"

“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”

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)

“Never eat anything bigger than your head.”

B. Kliban (1935–1990) American cartoonist

Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings http://books.google.com/books?id=tUCpngEACAAJ (1976)

“In life it is training rather than birth which counts.”

Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693) Japanese writer

Book I, ch. 3.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

“It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 119

“Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.”

Doron Zeilberger (1950) Israeli mathematician

The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper "Automaric CounTilings" that was rejected by Helene Barcelo and the Members of the Advisory Board [that includes(!) Enumeration Expert Mireille Bousquet-Melou] of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory-Series A.

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