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“5465. Weeds are apt to grow faster than good Herbs.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.”
Act II
What Every Woman Knows (1908)
“The advice of women, if spontaneous,
Is better than if pondered well, and weighed.”
Molti consigli de le donne sono
Meglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.
Canto XXVII, stanza 1 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
“A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.”
From Nobel Lecture (2014)
“Yea, Custance, better (they say) a bad excuse than none.”
Gawin Goodluck, Act V, sc. ii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)
“The race of armaments is nothing less than a race to mutual suicide.”
What Does God Want Us to Do About Russia? (1948)
“I came no nearer sleep than I came to the moon.”
Source: The Jewels of Aptor (1962), Chapter III (p. 29)
“A cup of kindness is better than a whole bottle of mercy can be.”
Song
“The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France.”
2 April 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
“Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.”
Más largo
que una noche de Diciembre
para un hombre mal casado.
"Murmuraban los rocines", line 94, cited from Poesias de D. Luis de Gongora y Argote (Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1820) p. 83. Translation from Henry Baerlein The House of the Fighting-cocks (London: Leonard Parsons, 1922) p. 92.
“5711. Who more busy than they that have least to do?”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”
Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)
“Life is much more of a compromise than I ever imagined.”
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
“The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 3.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, Religious
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
Tom Jordan, Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine, ISBN 0875964575
“Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.”
To the Lord General Cromwell (1652)
Quoted by President Benjamin Harrison in his dedication of the Chicago Auditorium, and thereafter inscribed on the building, as reported in Dr. William Carter, "Progress in World's Peace Movement", California Outlook (1913), Vol. 14, p. 11
“Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee.”
Colin Singleton, p. 15
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)