Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 4321.

  • Samuel Johnson It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francesco Petrarca It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • Francis Beaumont It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Jackie Mason It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ezra Pound It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is more than possible; it is probable.
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Josh Billings It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • G. B. Burgin It is much more comforable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Sir William Osler It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Sir William Osler It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Arthur Miller It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • J. B. S. Haldane It is my supposition that the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.
    J. B. S. Haldane
    English-Indian geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892 - 1964)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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