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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Far, Silent, Virtue

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Liberty, Calm

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Moment, Whether

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

Laughter, Laugh, Less

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass

True, Others, Rather

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran

Dreams, Lord, Dreamer

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Ellen DeGeneres

Marriage, Live, Bad

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles

Win, Cheating, Honor

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Paine

Peace, Time, Live

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich

Home, Happy, Angry

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

Nature, Good, Evil

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Wisdom, Few

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
Andrew Wyeth

Whole, Show, Story

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Saying, Soul, Alive

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!
Mitt Romney

Talk, Straight, Correct

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
Rupert Murdoch

Live, Mean, Whole

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Mind, Greatness

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace

American, Violence, Public

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge, Ignorant

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis de Sade

Faith, Good, Dead

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire

Love, Music, Trying

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

Best, Everybody, Trouble

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature, Great, God

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government, Else, Whatever

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women, Men, Talk

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Money, Freedom, Said

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Men, Mind, Moral

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

Beauty, Marriage, Money

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll

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