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 | Men always want to be a woman’s first love. What women like is to be a man’s last romance. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 25 likes |
 | I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 18 likes |
 | Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected. — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul 12 likes |
 | I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 11 likes |
 | Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 7 likes |
| The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
| I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 7 likes |
 | Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 6 likes |
 | What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 5 likes |
 | Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 4 likes |
 | I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 4 likes |
| I had rather be the first man in the village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul 3 likes |
 | I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
 | I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world. — Texas Guinan, 1884-1933, American actress 3 likes |
 | My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 2 likes |
 | I like boring things. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 2 likes |
 | What the public like best is fruit that is overripe. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 2 likes |
 | I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven? — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 2 likes |
 | I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. |
 | Love prefers twilight to daylight. |
 | She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins. |
 | If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. |
 | You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait! |
 | And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. |
 | Between grief and nothing I will take grief. |
 | To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. |
 | We all have our particular preferences. Mine is gentle sex, the kind in which a man takes forever before he touches you down there. But most people are so guilty about sex that they want the crime and the punishment built in. |
 | Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours. |
| The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. |
 | The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. |
Funny Quotes
 | We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate. |
Ancient Greek
 | Donkeys prefer garbage to gold. Όνους σύρματ’ αν ελέσθαι ή χρυσόν. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | It is better to be envied than pitied. Φθονέεσθαι κρέσσον εστὶ ή οικτείρεσθαι. — Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History” 7 likes |
 | Goodness and truth are the same for all men. But what is pleasant is different from man to man. Ανθρώποις πάσι ταυτό αγαθόν και αληθές. Ηδύ δε άλλω άλλο. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | Better the mother of the killer than the mother of the killed. 5 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. — from the film I’m No Angel (1933) 6 likes |
