Quotes

George H. W. Bush photo

“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

Horace Mann photo

“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

Bill Bryson photo

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

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)

Scott Moir photo

“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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg photo

“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

Thomas Fuller (writer) photo

“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)

Francis Bacon photo
Sara Bareilles photo

“I say what I think
Because it's more economic than drugs or a drink”

Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist

"Sweet As Whole"
Lyrics, Once Upon Another Time (2012)

John Buchan photo

“He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.”

Source: The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. XI

Edward Heath photo

“We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.”

Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)

ibid. Reported in Time magazine (24 December 1973). It was spoken on television. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj9OlIiHFo4
Prime Minister

Barbara W. Tuchman photo

“Yet sadly we feel that many of the noisiest are more interested in their indignation than in the injustice.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

Aphorism #22
Interglacial (2004)

Maureen O'Hara photo

“There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.”

Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015) Irish-American film actress and singer

Source: Tis Herself (2004), p.239

David Horowitz photo

“More than ever before, for humanity to live under capitalism, is to live on borrowed time.”

David Horowitz (1939) Neoconservative activist, writer

from the 1969 book Empire and Revolution.
1960s

Herbert Spencer photo

“The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy is worse than any other tyranny we suffer under.”

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist

On Manners and Fashion
Essays on Education (1861)

Miyamoto Musashi photo

“The true Way of sword fencing is the craft of defeating the enemy in a fight, and nothing other than this.”

Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book

Alastair Reynolds photo

“Am I that fascinating to you, or are you just more bored than I imagined?”

Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 27 (p. 438).

Anton Chekhov photo

“To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Letter to N.A. Leikin (December 24, 1886)
Letters