“ America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. ”
- Ferdinand Mount- Copy
- 1K
“ It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom on Ally McBeal. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective. ”
- Robert Downey Jr.- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. ”
- Osbert Lancaster- Copy
- 28
“ Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ”
- Gary Becker- Copy
- 3.8K
“ There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ”
- Moses Maimonides- Copy
- 436
“ The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 816
“ If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. ”
- George Ade- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. ”
- Lawana Blackwell- Copy
- 937
“ I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 1.4K
“ No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ”
- C. C. Colton- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
- 3.1K
“ When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The use of knowledge in our sex is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 687
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