All Quotes

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
‐‐ Charles Williams

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
‐‐ Harry Stack Sullivan

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

It is easier to be critical than correct.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
‐‐ Gene Fowler

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
‐‐ Livy

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
‐‐ Martina Navratilova

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
‐‐ Theodore Hesburgh

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.
‐‐ John Muir

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
‐‐ Alfred Adler

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
‐‐ John Ford

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
‐‐ Dorothy Day

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
‐‐ Margot Asquith

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
‐‐ Andre Gide

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.
‐‐ Henry Reed

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
‐‐ Betty Friedan

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
‐‐ George Santayana

It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
‐‐ Antony Johnston

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

It is easier to stay out than get out.
‐‐ Mark Twain

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
‐‐ George Matthew Adams

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
‐‐ Tony Visconti

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
‐‐ Livy

It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
‐‐ John Ciardi