Quotes with than

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 4180.

• I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

  ― Julius Caesar
  Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

  Source:  (1999)

  ― Bobby Fischer
  American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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• I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

  ― Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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• I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

  ― Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  ― Aneurin Bevan
  British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  ― Alexander Smith
  Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  ― Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather clean than beg.

  ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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• I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

  ― John D. Rockefeller
  American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
  

  ― Walt Disney
  American producer (1901 - 1966)
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• I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

  ― Alexander the Great
  Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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• I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

  ― Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

  ― R. A. Torrey
  American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  ― Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
  American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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• I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  ― Gerry Spence
   
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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

  ― Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
  

  ― Harry S. Truman
  American president (1884 - 1972)
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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

  ― Robert Green Ingersoll
  American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

  ― Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• knowledgeable
• entertained
• ultimately
• something
• knowledge
• excellent

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