“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
“You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine”
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
“Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)
“For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta”
Source: Catching Fire
“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”
Source: The Secret History
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html
Misattributed
“Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions”
Source: The Metamorphosis
“Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.”
“Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.”
“It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.”
Source: The Runaway Queen
“Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”
“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”
