Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 4584.

  • Samuel Johnson It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir William Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • W. Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
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  • Anne Brontë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
    Virginibus Puerisque
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Cecil Parkinson It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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  • Mark Twain It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is better to be faithful than famous.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Machiavelli It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Winston Churchill It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • André Gide It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Mae West It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Tom Stoppard It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Emily Dickinson It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Brigitte Bardot It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Buddha It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Julius Caesar It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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