Latter Quotes

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.

Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.