Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
Vladimir Nabokov

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Jules Renard

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Agatha Christie

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Maurice Strong

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
David Foster Wallace

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
Homer

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Margaret J. Wheatley

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Abdul Kalam

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George Will

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard Baruch

That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel de Cervantes

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Hannah Arendt