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That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.
— Saadi
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
How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable?
— Paul Kalanithi
Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.
— John Adams
Delay is preferable to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
— Najib Razak
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.
— Boris Beizer
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
— John Kennedy Toole
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.
— Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
— William Faulkner
Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace?
— Noam Chomsky
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
— Richard Steele
Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.
— Richard Davenport-Hines
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
— Caitlin Thomas
Maybe, peace was preferable to pleasure. Maybe, peace is one's first love.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
— William Whipple
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.
— Henri Michaux
Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you.
— Abhijit Naskar
We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
— George R R Martin
Dying of tetanus might be preferable to spending any more time in your company...
— Jessica Gadziala
Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
— Courtney Milan
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
— Emile M. Cioran
An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.
— Sophie Scholl
I wish you'd tell the truth, but since I know that isn't preferable--""The truth is always preferable, my dear. It's just not always wise. — Sabrina Jeffries
Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.
— Ann Patchett
Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, nomatter how polished. — Said Nursi
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
— Saint Augustine
Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
— Christopher Paolini
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
— Will Rogers
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
— E.F. Schumacher
Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it.
— Lyudmila Ulitskaya
A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit.
— Gretchen Rubin
She knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.
— Christina Baker Kline
Tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable ...
— Christina Baker Kline
Violence is any day preferable to impotence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.
— Mark Lawrence
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
— Bernard Beckett
Pain is always preferable to numbness.
— Scott Anderson
Maybe crazy is preferable to staying strong when you just want to break down and weep.
— Ellen Hopkins
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have come to understand that it is far preferable to know that we are living our own destiny, a destiny which was authored by God, our Father.
— Robert Bernecker
Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [ ... ] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.
— Christopher Hitchens
I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really is there.
— Sarah Caudwell
It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).
— Norman Mailer
It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.
— Robert Downey, Sr.
A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
— Bernie Sanders
I think the last dinner was preferable to this one. At least Raven was there. And Lucien.
— Amy Ewing
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
— Jean De La Fontaine
As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
— Barbara Hambly
I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.
— Victoria Moran
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
— Osbert Lancaster
I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes.
— Joshua Cohen
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
— Yanis Varoufakis
In case you were wondering, it is preferable to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven - I've done both.
— Cassandra Clare
Because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.
— Arlaina Tibensky
That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.
— Philippe De Commines
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
— Gore Vidal
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
— Emile M. Cioran
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.
— Erwin Griswold
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
— Minor White
I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
— Sherry Glaser
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
— Lawana Blackwell
...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.
— Jordan Castillo Price
For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.
— Busy Philipps
Don't accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.
— Neil Gaiman
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
— Brandon Sanderson
It's way too tense. Someone's either going to get into a fight or cry. Neither option is preferable.
— Melina Marchetta
At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
— Jenny Holzer
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
— Alexandre Dumas
