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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

Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one. — Dov Davidoff

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction. — John Adams

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness. — Sun Tzu

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. — Roald Dahl

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

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.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable. — Clive Barker

Anything would have been preferable to that one moment when you find your reality has just been blown to pieces and would never be the same again. — Rose Wynters

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

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man. — Henri Michaux

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth. — Saadi

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

When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more. — Jessica Fechtor

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow. — Orrin Hatch

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm. — Christopher Paolini

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

Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [ ... ] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all. — Christopher Hitchens

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

Pain is always preferable to numbness. — Scott Anderson

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace. — Tacitus

E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button. — J.A. Konrath

Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it. — Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you. — Ron Paul

A good action is preferable to an argument. — Voltaire

Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order. — Roland Barthes

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body. — Condoleezza Rice

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat. — Gordon R. Dickson

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find. — James Beard

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. — Will Rogers

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery. — Frederick Soddy

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

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference? — Bernard Beckett

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

I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living. — Vasco Da Gama

Tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable ... — Christina Baker Kline

Violence is any day preferable to impotence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person. — Amy Dickinson

Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other. — Mark Lawrence

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth. — Saadi

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 is my belief ... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. — J.K. Rowling

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.

The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't. — Stephen King

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

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates. — Barbara Hambly

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. — Salman Rushdie

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

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. — Molly Ivins

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal

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

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed — Bell Hooks

A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, no
matter how polished. — Said Nursi

One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal. — Tipu Sultan

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria

A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty. — Salman Rushdie

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White

This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The — Thomas Harris

Maybe crazy is preferable to staying strong when you just want to break down and weep. — Ellen Hopkins

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

...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

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