Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 4584.
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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.
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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
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It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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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.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
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