Less Quotes - page 2

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. (George Jean Nathan)
The older we get the less afraid we are.
Sidney Poitier
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress, as well as others, than I had any conception [of], before I became President of the U. S.
James K. Polk
Women are wiser than men, because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
Maria Callas
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Joseph Priestley
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
B. F. Skinner
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. (Iris Murdoch)
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
Ben Hecht
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
David Hume
The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.
Francis Bacon
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. (Thomas More)
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. Priestley
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
Heinrich Heine
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier