Less Quotes

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.