Stronger than pain quotes (page 367) | Quotes of famous people

“My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.”

George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States

Quoted in Barry Hillenbrand (30 October 2000), " Global Warnings http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998337-3,00.html", Time; attributed as a 1992 remark about Bill Clinton and Al Gore

“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”

Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 213

“Excuse me, but I just have to say this. You are more stupid than a paramecium.”

Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Source: A Walk in the Woods (1997), Chapter 8 (p. 106)

“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”

Peg Bracken (1918–2007) American writer

But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)

“Our partnership is so much more than that, and in a lot of ways it’s so much better.”

Scott Moir (1987) Canadian figure skater

Tessa Virtue, quoted in "Scott & Tessa Say Their Relationship Is “So Much Better” than People Imagine" http://www.flare.com/celebrity/scott-tessa-say-their-relationship-is-so-much-better-than-people-imagine/ (26 February 2018)
Partnership with Tessa Virtue, Tessa Virtue about Moir

“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist

E 11
Variant translations: Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

“892. Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)