Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
Marilyn vos Savant

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
Shel Silverstein

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Thomas Szasz

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Thurgood Marshall

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
Jeffrey Sachs