“The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.”
"The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
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“Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.”
Bernard Mandeville book The Fable of the Bees
"An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 294
The Fable of the Bees (1714)
“I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.”
Don Imus (1940–2019) Radio personality
Imus in the Morning, (29 March 2007)
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician
Response to being quoted William Shakespeare's statement from Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth… than are dreamt of in your philosophy." As quoted in When God is Gone Everything Is Holy: The Making Of A Religious Naturalist (2008) by Chet Raymo
1980s and later
“I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/seven-days-in-utopia-2011 of Seven Days in Utopia (31 August 2011) <br class="br">Reviews, One-star reviews
“Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.”
Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) American political scientist
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 8 : The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues, § 3 : Human Rights And Democracy, p. 197
“True artists, turned critics, think also less of rules than of values.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
“[ Brancusi ] has had more influence on my work than most architects.”
Frank Gehry (1929) Canadian-American (b.1929)
Frank Gehry in: Caroline Evensen Lazo (2005) Frank Gehry. p. 43.
“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
“The West Wind blows the curtains
And I am frailer than the yellow chrysanthemums.”
Li Qingzhao (1084–1155) Chinese writer
《醉花陰》 ("Ninth Day, Ninth Month"), as translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung in Li Ch'ing-chao: Complete Poems (New Directions, 1979), p. 14
“A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
"The Armenian and the Armenian".
Inhale and Exhale (1936)
“The uncounscious actions of a pure soul are even more strange than the vice's schemes.”
Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923) French writer
Les manoeuvres inconscientes d'une âme pure sont encore plus singulières que les combinaisons du vice
Raymond Radiguet: Le bal du comte d'Orgel. Paris 1924. P. 1.
“It is probable that democracy owes more to Nonconformity than to any other single movement.”
R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) English philosopher
Part IV, Ch. 4
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
“I would make a fool of myself…They are so much better than I was.”
Nigel Lythgoe (1949) Executive producer and television director
On why he never dances on So You Think You Can Dance
Looseleaf, Victoria (August 2007), "A MAN, A PLAN, A WILDLY SUCCESSFUL TV SHOW". Dance Magazine. 81 (8):46
Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851) Danish physicist and chemist
Relating his discovery of the magnetic effect of an electric current, in "Experiments on the Effect of a Current of Electricity on the Magnetic Needle", Annals of Philosophy 1820, vol. 16, pp. 273-277.
“5414. Want of Care does us more Damage than want of Knowledge.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
From 6/28/2010 Colbert Report
“On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199809041612.JAA05556@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998