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“The scraping subjects, ruled by fear, they told mewhiskey works better than beer.”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter
King's Crossing.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)
“It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
Plutarch's Life of Cato
Variant: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”
Thomas De Quincey book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic
Independent (London, April 4, 1991)
“The driver wanted Reacher more than he wanted an undamaged front bumper.”
Lee Child book Worth Dying For
Worth Dying For, (2010).
“The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.”
Jim Butcher book Day Off
Character: "Darth Wannabe"
The Dresden Files short stories, Day Off
“They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past.”
Glen Cook book She Is the Darkness
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 86 (p. 575)
“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The Resurrection of a Life (1935)
“Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
European Parliament, Brussels, March 6, 2009. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19718.html <br class="br">Secretary of State (2009–2013)
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 154
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
BBC obituary (2004)
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IV, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“Whose it gonna be!? Whose it gonna be?! Whoever it is, I am better than them!”
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
2010
Friday Night SmackDown
“Truth is stranger than fiction — to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XV
Following the Equator (1897)
“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Source: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 6: Spent Loves.
“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 220.
“I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=sIE7AAAAYAAJ&q=%22I+have+always+considered+my+face+a+convenience+rather+than+an+ornament%22&pg=PA103#v=onpage to James Russell Lowell (18 March 1882)