“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
Variant: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
Source: The Name of the Rose
“people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives”
“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula
“Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”
Source: The Favorite Game
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
“You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that?”
Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script
“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”
Variant: For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
Source: One False Note
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)
