Preferable
Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme.
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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
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
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
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
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
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton
Preferable Translations
preferable in German is vorzuziehen
preferable in Spanish is preferible
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