“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”
Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
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“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”
John Irving book A Widow for One Year
Source: A Widow for One Year
“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.”
David Levithan book Every Day
Source: Every Day
“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
On Boxing (1987)
“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Source: Recapture the Wonder
“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“I learn more from books than from people”
William Sleator (1945–2011) Young adult science fiction novelist
Source: The Beasties
