Far Quotes - page 4

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. (Anthony Trollope)
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. View quote
Terry Brooks
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. View quote
Robert Sheckley
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. View quote
Charles Lamb
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. View quote
George Sand
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. (John Tukey)
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. View quote
Carl Sagan
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. View quote
Plutarch
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. View quote
Carl Jung
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. View quote
Denis Diderot
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. View quote
Denis Diderot
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. View quote
Lewis Mumford
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. View quote
Max Beerbohm
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. (Vincent van Gogh)
Fair and softly goes far. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. View quote
Hannah Arendt