#known

Keep what you have; the known evil is best. ↗

— Plautus

#evil #keep #known #you

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant? ↗

— Pete du Pont

#attacks #coming #could #electronically #government

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#men #must #proposed #taught #them

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#damn #i #known #never #who

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#beset #channel #conjecture #distance #explore

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#crowd #intelligence #known #number #people

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#both #contempt #i #known #lessen

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#done #had #i #known #many

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#could #escape #eyes #glory #i