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“A hopeful sinner is closer to the mercy of Allah than a hopeless worshipper.”

Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam

Mizan al-hikma, Volume 10, Page 504, Tradition 7109
Shi'ite Hadith

“5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
Context: 830. Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.

“I think he's saying there should be more than a minute.”

Ian Darke (1950) British association football and boxing commentator

Belgium v. United States https://web.archive.org/web/20140702125036/https://vine.co/v/MFLYdq5wVQL (1 July 2014). <br class="br">2010s, 2014, 2014 FIFA World Cup

“It is more difficult to avoid being ruled than to rule others.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il est plus difficile de s’empêcher d’être gouverné que de gouverner les autres.
Maxim 151.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part II, p. 773.

“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.”

Edward Coke (1552–1634) English lawyer and judge

Twyne's Case (1602).

“A nation is a far more self-conscious community than an ethnicity.”

Adrian Hastings (1929–2001) Roman Catholic priest, historian and author

Source: The construction of nationhood: ethnicity, religion, and nationalism (1997), p. 3; cited in: Ciarán Benson (2001) The Cultural Psychology of the Self: Place, Morality, Art. p. 211.

“Preserving power, rather than increasing it, is the main goal of states.”

John Mearsheimer book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 20

“As learned commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)

“Tom Cruise, he’s a lot more famous than me.”

David Beckham (1975) English footballer

As quoted in BECKSWATCH: The countdown begins http://www.theherald.com.au/story/461792/beckswatch-the-countdown-begins/ (October 22, 2010) by Amy Edwards, The Newcastle Herald

“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet

Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.”

Lou Reed (1942–2013) American musician

Of his 'Metal Machine Music' double album, as quoted at BBC - collective - Lou Reed: RR Buyer's Guide http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2580725 (and elsewhere; please put the original here if you know it.)

“We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 134