“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
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Ed Gorman (1941–2016) American writer
Source: Everybody's Somebody's Fool
“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
“Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?”
“On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
Source: Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“But you can love more than just one person, can't you?”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
"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.”
Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings
Source: The Way of Kings
“need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.”
David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That’s even worse than water boy.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Where's My Hero?
“Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.”
Dana Gioia (1950) American writer
"The Rise of James Fenton," http://www.danagioia.net/essays/efenton.htm published in The Dark Horse (Autumn 1999 and Summer 2000) <br class="br">Essays
“Human beings have not been given anything higher than wisdom and intellect.”
Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 419.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General