How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

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

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J. K. Rowling

The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
David Hume

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
William Arthur Ward

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Thomas Merton

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
David Ogilvy

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
Morgan Freeman

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
Orlando Bloom

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Christopher Columbus

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