#than

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bring #diving #gravel #more #pearls

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ↗

— Aristotle

#democracy #majority #more #more power #poor

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. ↗

— Aristotle

#body #figure #impressed #more #must

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#country #difference #here #hundredfold #i

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? ↗

— W. H. Auden

#difficult #even #faith #far #god

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#i #i write #know #more #move

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#aspiration #aspires #compares #estimates #higher

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ↗

— Jane Austen

#better #cases #feels #had #more

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ↗

— Jane Austen

#handsomer #happens #she #sometimes #ten