Less Is More

Man knows more than he understands. - Alfred Adler

Kindness affects more than severity. - Aesop

Math research is more like a marathon. - Terence Tao

To weep is to make less the depth of grief. - William Shakespeare

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert

Most of 'em have more hismones than hermones. - Archie Bunker

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. - Rene Descartes

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. - Amy Grant

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. - Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. - Unknown

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. - Gore Vidal

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J K Rowling

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. - Thomas Fuller

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. - Lord Byron

Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others. - Andy Rooney

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Seneca

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female. - Desmond Morris

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. - Virginia Woolf

The more you know yourself, the more you understand life, the more you value your time. - Maxime Lagace

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G B Burgin

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas J. Barnardo

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either use one more club or two more balls. - Unknown

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back. - Dale Carnegie

The present contains nothing more than the past. And what is found in the effect was already in the cause. - Henri Bergson

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size is a dwarf in more articles than one. - Laurence Stern

A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows. - Unknown

Teach your daughter to worry less about fitting into the glass slippers and more about shattering the glass ceilings. - Unknown

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. - Unknown

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. - Arthur Ashe

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. - Harvey Cushing

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it's more like a cha-cha. - Robert Brault

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

An expert is somebody who is more than fifty miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. - Edwin Meese

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. - Barbara Sher

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing. - George Carlin