(659 quotes found)
“Acts of loving-kindness now supersede sacrifices as the preferred way of attaining God's forgiveness.”
Yochanan ben Zakkai
“We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.”
Clifton Fadiman
“Frankly speaking, we would prefer to have the original copy like everybody else,”
Fayssal Mekdad
“I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.”
Mae West
“Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“There is no doubt that Emerson was a yea-sayer. He did celebrate the daylight and hope in preference to blackness and despair.”
Chang Young-Hee
“A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it”
William Penn
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.”
Winston Churchill
“Some prefer carrot while others like cabbage”
Irish Sayings
“Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity”
Walter Kidde
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