Less Quotes - page 6

Less base the fear of death than fear of life. (Edward Young)
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. View quote
Lysander Spooner
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. View quote
Molière
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. View quote
Mark Twain
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. View quote
Edith Hamilton
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. View quote
Winston Churchill
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. View quote
Walt Disney
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. View quote
Karl Marx
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. (René Descartes)
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. View quote
Richard Marcinko
You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary. View quote
Tyler Joseph
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. View quote
Ulrich Beck
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control. View quote
Hermann Maier
Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as "cold." There is only less heat. View quote
Alton Brown
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. View quote
Paul Brown
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. (Peter O'Toole)
I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family. View quote
Sidney Poitier
The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. View quote
Jamie Lee Curtis
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love? View quote
Michael Pollan
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. View quote
Indira Gandhi