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“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture III: War, section 114 (1866).

“I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die.”

Ralston Bowles (1952) American musician

From the song "Draper" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

“The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”

Jean Paul (1763–1825) German novelist

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 368.

“I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”

Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author

Disputed

“It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland

Natural Theology (1836), Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15; though provided without attribution of author, the saying "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense" has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.

“I cannot think that there exists more than one Sovereign Good.”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

Socrates, p. 81
Eupalinos ou l'architecte (1921)

“I think we were better as friends than husband and wife.”

Nastassja Kinski (1961) German actress

On her relationship with Ibrahim Moussa, as quoted in Cameron Docherty, Interview: Nastassja Kinski - Still a daddy's girl, The Independent, September 26, 1997

“They have a much more positive view of the country than I do.”

Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies

On how South Koreans view the United States of America
2010s, Interview with Colin Marshall (February 2015)

“And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did the adviser!”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

Stanza 11.
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)

“We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.”

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

Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise.
Maxim 25.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walking

Walking (June 1862)

“[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.”

Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time

At Lady Molly's (1957), ch. 1.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)

“It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Running Away, from the album Kaya
Song lyrics

“Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.”

Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist

“Correspondingly, the work group became central rather than the individual jobholder.”

Eric Trist (1909–1993) British scientist

The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981)

“What sign is there more plain
Than self-destruction, of a mind insane?”

Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso

Quale è di pazzia segno più espresso
Che, per altri voler, perder se stesso?
Canto XXIV, stanza 1 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

“Winds and waters keep
A hush more dead than any sleep.”

William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet

Ruined Chapel; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Here was more than a question of law; it was a matter of whose will should prevail.”

Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer

The Sorrow of Odin the Goth (p. 433)
Time Patrol

“I don't think there is anyone bigger or smaller than Diego Maradona!”

Kevin Keegan (1951) English footballer

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