Less Quotes - page 3

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. (Charles Baudelaire)
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honoré de Balzac
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Peter De Vries
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. (John Updike)
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles de Lint
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Horace Mann
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison
The more I see the less I know for sure.
John Lennon
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
William Hazlitt
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
Eyvind Johnson
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
W. Somerset Maugham
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
Bolesław Prus
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder