Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 4622.

  • Samuel Butler There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Frank Zappa There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • François Rabelais There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Bill Gates There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • St. Teresa of Avila There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • William Shakespeare There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
    Hamlet II, 5
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Seneca There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.
    Jason Pontin (November 28, 2006). The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup). MIT Technology Review. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Seneca There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Hazlitt There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Cassandra Clare There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Plautus There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Roland Barthes There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Alec Baldwin There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Barry Took There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
    As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • John F. Kennedy There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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