Quotes with than

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• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

  ― Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather make my name than inherit it.

  ― W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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• I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

  Source: Phaedrus

  ― Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

  ― Don Marquis
  American writer (1878 - 1937)
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• I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

  ― Edward Dahlberg
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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• I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

  ― George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  ― John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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• I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

  ― William Somerset Maugham
  English writer (1874 - 1965)
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• I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

  ― Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

  ― Douglas Adams
  British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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• I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

  ― Robert H. Schuller
  American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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• I'd rather bathe lepers than be interviewed by the press.

  ― Mother Teresa
  Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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• I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

  ― George Burns
  American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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• I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

  ― Bryce Harper
  American baseball player (1992 - )
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• I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

  ― Ken Kesey
  American writer (1935 - 2001)
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• I'd rather be a poor winner than any kind of loser.

  ― G. Kaufman
   
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• I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

  ― Margaret Drabble
  English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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• I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.

  ― Mick Jagger
  English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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• I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

  ― Kurt Cobain
  American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• satisfaction
• seismograph
• forty-five
• countries
• timetable

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