The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mohandas Gandhi

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Ogden Nash

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain

Rather be dead than cool.
Kurt Cobain

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.
W. C. Fields

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W. C. Fields

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson