Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

But poetry is a way of language it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth and the keystone of our religion and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than by any other book.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before or else estrange them.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

When we drop fear we can draw nearer to people we can draw nearer to the earth we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it that start being frightened.

Believers look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.