Prefers Quotes

162 Prefers quotes by 145 unique authors

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses… — David Fairchild
The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action. — Confucius
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only… — Martial
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom. — Will Durant
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from… — Max Planck
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the… — Owen Barfield
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove… — William Hazlitt
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort… — Richard Le Gallienne
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest… — Edward Gibbon
Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? — Jonathan Safran Foer
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. — Hermann Hesse
Love prefers twilight to daylight. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating. — Penn Jillette
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. — Karl Kraus
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. — Edgar Allan Poe
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food… — Andrew Weil
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict. — Evgeny Morozov
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw… — Ernest Hemingway

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