More matter, with less art. – William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Queen Gertrude interrupts the long-winded Polonius to tell him to stop embroidering things and get to the point, when he begins speaking about Hamlet’s madness.
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth’s pocket and crept into another. – Henry Rollins
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. – Henry David Thoreau
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. – Gerald Brenan
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. – Herbie Hancock
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. – Henry Miller
Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities? – George Phillips Bond
We don’t have spittoons on street corners any more. It’s no longer acceptable to spit on the street. – Harvey V. Fineberg
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched. – Gary Jennings
I don’t know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. – Gwyneth Paltrow
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. – Helen Fisher
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. – Henry David Thoreau
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. – Hans Eysenck