The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes.
Charles
Baudelaire
The more a man dreams, the less he believes.
H.L. Mencken
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.
Alexis
de Tocqueville
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
May
Sarton
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities
of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the
destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and
they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
Rachel
Carson
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and
rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good
will and sentiment.
Reinhold Neibuhr
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the
preparation for it.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to
chaos.
Frank Herbert
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
The more data banks record about us, the less we exist.
Marshall
McLuhan
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are
aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the
more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Joseph
Priestly
The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our
possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with
gibbets to scare every invader.
Oliver Goldsmith
The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded
us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found
to this uniform law of nature.
David Hume
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater
will be his power of knowing what to do.
Isaac Disraeli
The more gold a man wears around his neck, the more worthless he thinks
himself to be.
Michael O'Donoghue
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen
Key
The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the
more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we
were coming.
Freeman Dyson
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that
there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at
all.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
The more I practice the luckier I get.
Arnold Palmer
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
Madame Roland
The more I see of the monied classes, the more I understand the
guillotine.
George Bernard Shaw
The more I think about it, the more I agree with the bees: worship the
Queen and kill the unemployed.
Arthur Lotti
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard
Bach
The more lies are told, the more important it becomes for the liars to
justify themselves by deep moral commitments to high-sounding objectives
that mask the pursuit of money and power.
Bertram Gross
The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.
Thomas
Paine
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore
Vidal
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is
found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and
dearer it is.
Maimonides
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and
the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like
home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
The more one forgets himself- by giving himself to a cause to serve or
another person to love- the more human he is and the more he actualizes
himself.
Viktor Frankl
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to
place the good in question.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honoré de Balzac
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.
Louis
L'Amour
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it
becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in
the direction of the vocal organs.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The more one produces, the less one gets.
Norman Augustine
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has a sense of the comic.
It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires the authority in
the art of the comic.
Søren Kierkegaard
The more one talks, the less the words mean.
Jean-Luc Godard
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim Wenders
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
Arthur
Koestler
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards
the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the
measurement of momentum, and vice versa. ('The Uncertainty Principle' of
quantum mechanics).
Werner Heisenberg
The more reason we have to pay attention to life, the less we have to
pay attention to death.
B.F. Skinner
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
Anton Chekhov
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the
clearer we should see through it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
Auguste Rodin
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and
vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
Stephen Ambrose
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's
one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The
more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will
Rogers
The more that people understand about the secret machinery of the
universe, the less likely it is that they will be duped and victimized
by television and politicians.
Rudy Rucker
The more they know, the more they'll understand. The more they
understand, the more they'll care. Once they care, there's no stopping
them.
Sam Walton
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George
Bernard Shaw
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Alphonse Karr
The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
John
Kenneth Galbraith
The more useless the application, the better the graphics.
Variously
attributed
The more virtuous a man is himself, the less does he suspect baseness in
others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
Taylor Caldwell
The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries
we haven't.
William Arthur Ward
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with
difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary
things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.
Maimonides
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more
leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we
communicate.
J.B. Priestley
The more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
Lloyd
Alexander
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of
life.
Leo Tolstoy
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;
It is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Molière
(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics- and our external ones
too- the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to
feel comfortable with who we are- as women and as mothers.
Arianna
Huffington
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry,
or depressing its contents seemed to be.
Arthur C. Clarke
The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror.
Gustave
Flaubert
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin
Disraeli
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers,
immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam
Chomsky
The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you
become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You
realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears.
Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing.
Bill Watterson
The more you know, the sadder you get.
Stephen Colbert
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want
to avoid people.
Dian Fossey
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more
energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
The more you make people alike, the more competition you have.
Competition is based on the principle of conformity.
Marshall
McLuhan
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold- if you have one.
Rex
Stout
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to
admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always
looks the best.
Will Rogers
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the
greater the profit.
Francois Fenelon
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
George S.
Patton
The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has
its own cape, sword and little hat.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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