Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 4622.

  • 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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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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