“I have made a monument more lasting than bronze.”
Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Book III, ode xxx, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
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“We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.”
"Fader's Waft", chapter 13
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)
“You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Isabella Linton to Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. X).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.”
Robert Browning A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843), Act i, scene iii.
“Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.”
Richard Baxter (1615–1691) English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Splendor of the Saints' Rest"
“I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.”
Peter Jackson (1961) New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter
Hobbit interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3n0fNVhADE&feature=youtu.be&t=7m25s, 2012.
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
John Green book Paper Towns
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 282
Paper Towns (2008)
“It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.”
Robert Mugabe (1924–2019) former President of Zimbabwe
"ZAPU deposes Mr. Nkomo as Leader", The Times, 9 July 1962, p. 9
Remarks to the press, 8 July 1962, concerning the future strategy of ZAPU in achieving majority rule.
1960s
“There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As quoted in Design for Power : The Struggle for the World (1941) by Frederick Lewis Schuman, p. 200; This is the earliest citation yet found for this or similar statements which have been attributed to David Lloyd George, as well as to Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill, Vaclav Havel, Jeffrey Sachs, Rashi Fein, Walter Bagehot and Philip Noel-Baker. It has been described as a Greek, African, Chinese, Russian and American proverb, and as "an old Chassidic injunction". Variants:
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
Later life
“The poem is important, but
not more than the people
whose survival it serves…”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams.
Poems
“Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.”
Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician
From a speech made to bankers 2003 March 12 [citation needed]
2000s
“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish writer
Rectorial Address, St. Andrew's (3 May 1922)
“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
Speech (7 November 1860).
1860s
“The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.”
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Más vale el buen ocio que el negocio.
Maxim 247
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.”
George Gordon Byron The Giaour
Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 969.
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.
L'Ingénu, ch.10 (1767)
Quoted in The End, part 13 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Citas
“I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.”
Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home
Source: Sing You Home
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author