Stronger than pain quotes (page 376) | Quotes of famous people

“My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast.”

Joseph Jacobs book English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 164

“You're more likely to see Elvis again than to see this bill pass the Senate.”

Mitch McConnell (1942) US Senator from Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader

On the McCain-Feingold Bill on Campaign Reform New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/01/us/bill-to-overhaul-campaign-finance-survives-in-house.html, (July 31, 1998)
1998

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

James Neil Hollingworth (1933–1996) talent manager

Quoted in K. Patrick Malone, Inside a Haunted Mind (2008) p. 167

“How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Burns.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&q=%22You+cannot+be+friends+upon+any+other+terms+than+upon+the+terms+of+equality%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913)
1910s

“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”

Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer

On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661

“I may say things with the right intention, but more often than not, people will misconstrue it.”

Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality

From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi

“The one who acts without knowledge, destroys and ruins more than he rectifies.”

Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 364
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General

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

Tessa Virtue (1989) Canadian ice dancer

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 Scott Moir, Tessa Virtue about Moir

“From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:
From some, a dazzling desire.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

“It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than that others should learn from you.”
Te de aliis, quam alios de te suaviu’st.

Plautus Persa

Persa, Act IV, scene 3, line 70
Variant translation: ’Tis sweeter far wisdom to gain from other’s woes, than others should learn from ours. (translation by Bonnell Thornton)
Persa (The Persian)