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Than Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
- Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
- It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no…
- A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority…
- That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces,…
- Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
- You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less…
- Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when…
- Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle