"I preferred the simplest vocabulary." — Louise Glück

More Preferred Quotes

This quote is filed under Preferred Quotes, one of 320 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
• Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon
• The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the… — George Bancroft
• Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends. — Mary J. Blige
• The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is… — Allan Bloom
• Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. — Winston Churchill
• In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the… — Peter Abelard
• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk… — Ian Anderson
• When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I… — Ian Anderson
• I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of… — Thomas Carlyle

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