“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”
“More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.”
“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
Quoted in The Times (6 July 1989).
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.10
“A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 143 (in 1998 edition)
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
Source: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 158
“I just make crap up more than anything else.”
Ain't It Cool News interview
“Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.”
via Nika, Colleen. "Exclusive: Anna Sui Discusses Her Spring 2012 Show and Punk Rock Heritage". Rolling Stone (September 14, 2011). http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/exclusive-anna-sui-discusses-her-spring-2012-show-and-punk-rock-heritage-20110914
“Woman's nakedness is wiser than the teachings of the philosophers. [the title of his essay]”
Quote in Max Ernst, Gonthier-Seghers, Paris, 1959; as cited in Max Ernst sculpture, Museo d'arte contemporanea. Edizioni Charta, Milano, 1996, p. 37
1951 - 1976
“…to Americans English manners are far more frightening than none at all…”
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 1, p. 12
“Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.”
No. 36.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”
"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
“Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.”
F 53
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“The enmity of one's kindred is far more bitter than the enmity of strangers.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”
My Memories of Eighty Years (1922), p. 318
“That was scarier than Richard Simmons chasin' after you with a box of rubbers!”
Git-R-Done (album)
“Was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.”
Book VII: Pompilia, line 357.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
85
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“The essential nature of growth is none other than the overcoming of earthly weight.”
Callum Coats: The Fertile Earth
“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
Plato, Phaedo
