A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Jean de la Bruyere
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself... →
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have... →
Erik Brynjolfsson
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls.... →
Bill Bryson
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more... →
James Buchan
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player... →
Larry Buchanan