Quotes with heavier-than-air

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  • Mark Twain Better a broken promise than none at all.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Edmund Burke Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aesop Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Jonathan Swift Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Eliza Cook Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • C. Rossetti Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
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  • Amelia Earhart Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Baltasar Gracián Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • William Blake Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • George Herbert Better never begin than never make an end.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Better not be at all than not be noble.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Carl Sagan Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 263
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John Ruskin Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
    The seven lamps of architecture
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Publilius Syrus Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • B. C. Forbes Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Better to be without logic than without feeling.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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