#rather

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#ear #eye #rather #than #wife

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#closer #community #family #friends #i

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon. ↗

— David Frum

#better #discuss #individual #names #politics

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#bestow #careful #children #concern #doing

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#church #clothes #come #many #rather

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#citizens #discussions #encourage #enter #future

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#contented #fear #get #i #live

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fancies #gain #human #human experience #lose