Definition of Preferable

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Definition of Preferable
	Preferable Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme. Related Definitions: As, Be, Before, Chosen, Desirable, Else, More, Or, Preferable, Preferred, Scheme, Something, To, Worthy

Preferable Quotations

Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emile M. Cioran

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emile M. Cioran

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
Mary Astell

Preferable Translations

preferable in German is vorzuziehen
preferable in Spanish is preferible

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