Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Alvar Aalto

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
Alexander Hamilton

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt Vonnegut

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis de Sade

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour