“Civilization without its appliances is weaker than barbarism.”
Theodore Winthrop book The Canoe and the Saddle
The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests (1863), ch. ix: Via Mala.
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“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No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger (unpublished manuscript written 1902–1908)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 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