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“I shall not live much longer than did Keats.”

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) English illustrator and author

As quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 214

“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

On porte encore moins facilement la joie excessive que la peine la plus lourde.
Part II, ch. L
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)

“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”

Cyril Connolly book Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 14: The Charlock’s Shade (p. 116)

“Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.”

William McKeen (1954) American academic

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 17, Homecoming, p. 329

“Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.”

Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator

Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29.

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”

Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
The Rose Tattoo (1951)

“Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.”

Aeschines (-389–-314 BC) Attic orator; statesman

Aeschines, De Falsa Legatione, 149.

“I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.”

Parker Palmer (1939) American theologian

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

“An adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter. (General Maxims)”
aduersarium amplius frangunt transfugae quam perempti.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus book De re militari

De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book III, "Dispositions for Action"

“The brain gives up a lot less easily than the body.”

Norman Maclean (1902–1990) American author and scholar

"A River Runs Through It", p. 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=5GL2_ctw58gC&q=%22The+brain+gives+up+a+lot+less+easily+than+the+body%22&pg=PA58#v=onepage <br class="br">A River Runs Through It (1976)

“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”

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

Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépend pas moins de leur humeur que de la fortune.
Maxim 61.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“Tranquillity! thou better name
Than all the family of Fame.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Ode to Tranquillity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book III, Ch. 2
Attributed

“There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

"All's Fair in War", http://books.google.com/books?id=CQgEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22There+is+no+such+thing+as+an+atrocity+in+warfare+that+is+greater+than+the+atrocity+of+warfare+itself%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage Strictly Personal syndicated column (31 August 1981) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19810831&id=qeQcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q44EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4655,3549388 <br class="br">Pieces of Eight (1982)