All Quotes

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
‐‐ Barney Frank

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.
‐‐ Joel Barlow

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.
‐‐ Eva Vertes

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
‐‐ Romano Prodi

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.
‐‐ Craig L. Thomas

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.
‐‐ Mustafa Akyol

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
‐‐ Aeschylus

It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.
‐‐ Michael Dickinson

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.
‐‐ Max Heindel

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
‐‐ Hesiod

It is best to live however one can be.
‐‐ Sophocles

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
‐‐ Aristotle

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
‐‐ Alice Paul

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
‐‐ Herodotus

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
‐‐ Betty Friedan

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
‐‐ Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
‐‐ Epicurus

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
‐‐ James Payn

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
‐‐ Livy

It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
‐‐ Manfred von Richthofen

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
‐‐ C. Northcote Parkinson

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
‐‐ George Washington

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
‐‐ Grover Cleveland

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
‐‐ Andre Gide

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.
‐‐ Shiv Khera

It is better to be likable than to be talented.
‐‐ Utah Phillips

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
‐‐ Mae West

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
‐‐ Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
‐‐ Anna Howard Shaw

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
‐‐ Guy de Maupassant

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
‐‐ Flannery O'Connor

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