Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I'd rather write about polar bears than people.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Is an artist much more than a beggar?
