I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian Tracy

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Billy Graham

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
Ann Coulter

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
Rush Limbaugh

Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The more we have the less we own.
Meister Eckhart