Former Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine

Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as…

— George Washington

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The…

— Joseph Brodsky

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the…

— Anonymous

Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,…

— Saint Augustine

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

— Oliver North

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former…

— Steven Erikson

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

— Thomas Paine

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

— Fausto Cercignani

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

— Samuel Richardson

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza