“Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.”
Joseph Addison book Cato
Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
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“There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Our Relation to Others, § 24
Essays
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
1980s
“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.”
Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer
Source: D. R. Schneider Saving the Whales http://books.google.co.in/books?id=yimJZOXm9bEC&pg=PA77, Bwana Doc Adventures, 1 September 2008, p. 77
Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas
New Preface, p. vi
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
“There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Expatiate free o’er all this scene of man;
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Choosing what we think rather than reacting to our emotions.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“"I'd rather betray others, than have others betray me."”
Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord during the Eastern Han Dynasty
Statement in 190, after falsely killing Lü Boshe. Source: Sun Sheng Zaji, page 5 of Sanguo Zhi.
“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.”
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 13; variant with modernized spelling: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
“Life — is it anything more than a machine to which money imparts the motion?”
Honoré de Balzac book Gobseck
La vie n'est-elle pas une machine à laquelle l'argent imprime le mouvement? <br class="br"> p. 26, 1921 édition https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158007362832;view=1up;seq=63 <br class="br">Gobseck (1830)
“Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.”
Samuel Richardson book Clarissa
Vol. 2, p. 478; Letter 135.
Clarissa (1747–1748)
“We should hide our strength rather than put it on display.”
Feng Shih-kuan (1945) Taiwanese politician
Feng Shih-kuan (2016) cited in " Taiwan deploys jet fighters to monitor China's aircraft carrier http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201612270011.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 27 December 2016
“The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
E.W. Howe's Monthly January 1912.
“Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Her comment to the SAS group, at 9.45 p.m. soon after Operation Nimrod (5 May 1980)
First term as Prime Minister
“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”
Dave Barry (1947) American writer
Column, The Miami Herald, 21 January 1996
Columns and articles
“3454. More Flies are taken with a Drop of Honey than a Tun of Vinegar.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I was madder than a Keebler elf getting demoted to fudge-packer.”
Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist
Morning Constitutions (2007)
“We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.”
Brian Viglione (1979) American musician
June 1, 2006 - OndaRock Interview
“It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Courtship of Arthur and Al", The New Yorker (26 August 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Parody of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Better to have loved and lost/than never to have loved at all."
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five.”
Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
"The Aesthetics of Politics," p. 155
Essays in Disguise (1990)