No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Helen Rowland

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
Ang Lee

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
John Stuart Mill

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.
Clarence Thomas

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
Nigella Lawson

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
Gong Li

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan P. Smith

People should always have something which they prefer to life.
Johann G. Seume

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
Marvin Harris

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon

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

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
Milla Jovovich

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
Hugh Mackay

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
Paul Begala

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
Leo Durocher

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
Jasper Johns

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

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
Salmon P. Chase

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch