Lesse Quotes

#1. I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

Elizabeth I

#2. All griefes with bread are lesse.

George Herbert

#3. The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house.
[The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

George Herbert

#4. The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

John Lyly

#5. Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#6. Hurt inflicted, if lesse than the benefit of transgressing, is not punishment... and is rather the Price, or Redemption, than the Punishment of a Crime.

Thomas Hobbes

#7. He that hath little is the lesse durtie.

George Herbert

#8. Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

George Herbert

#9. Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

Li Keqiang

#10. How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Edward Abbey

#11. Merry... you look awful. - Vivia

Susan Dennard

#12. In addition to Tieren's list, she'd nicked a flask of something called "sleep sweet" and a tiny ampule marked "seer's tea," but she'd left the rest, feeling quite impressed with her restraint.

V.E Schwab

#13. There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.

Alistair Overeem

#14. Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Isabel Allende

#15. Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Andre Breton

#16. 'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan