#refer

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#commerce #easy #fashion #jackets #meat

If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#another #broad #certain #certain things #company

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#life #ourselves #prefer #seriously #take

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#classic #literature #modern #newest #oldest

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#because #going #i #know #lose

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#course #does #exactly #heart #i

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #bomb #everything #great #great moment

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#prefer #talk #threes #while #women

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#ignorant #knowledge #loquacity #prefer

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. ↗

— Chilon

#dishonest #gain #loss #moment #other