Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 4321.

  • Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Thurber It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Groucho Marx It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Edgar Saltus It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Mark Twain It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Josh Billings It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bob Marley It is better to live on the house top
    than to live in a house full of confusion
    Song Lyrics Running Away, from the album Kaya
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is better to live rich than to die rich.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • John Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • J. Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of `culture'.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • George Washington It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is better to receive than to do injury.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Whitefield It is better to rust out than wear out.
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  • Baltasar Gracian It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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