“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.”
“Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?”
“On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.”
“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
Source: Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
"Mormon Lilies", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 4 of the 4 part series "Notes from Utah") dated July 1877, published 19 July 1877; reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 9
1870s
“Can’t be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia”
Source: Where's My Hero?
“Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.”
"The Rise of James Fenton," http://www.danagioia.net/essays/efenton.htm published in The Dark Horse (Autumn 1999 and Summer 2000)
Essays
“Human beings have not been given anything higher than wisdom and intellect.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 419.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
