“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
The Human Condition (1958).
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”
Source: Lead the Field
“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.”
Resources of Hope (published posthumously in 1989), p. 118
“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.”
“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”
“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”
Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
Variant: Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Source: Twelfth Night
“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.”
“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
Morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis.
Book III, Chapter III
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
“It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.”
Source: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”
Source: Lucky Jim (1954)
