Top Preferable Quotes
Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
William Whipple
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
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Osbert Lancaster
All Preferable Quotes
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine 
57% of people like this quote
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
William Whipple 
55% of people like this quote
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 
55% of people like this quote
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides 
54% of people like this quote
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Osbert Lancaster 
54% of people like this quote
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. 
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A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
Zebulon Pike 
51% of people like this quote
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emile M. Cioran 
51% of people like this quote

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