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Quotes About Preference

I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
~ Mike Ditka
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
~ Yogi Berra
How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
~ Olga Korbut
The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
~ Nat King Cole
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
~ Alasdair Gray
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~ Albert Einstein
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
~ Aldous Huxley
A gramme is always better than a damn.
~ Aldous Huxley
Porque es antiguo; ésta es la razón principal. Aquí las cosas antiguas no nos son útiles. —¿Aunque sean bellas? —Especialmente cuando son bellas. La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.
~ Aldous Huxley
Prefiero ser yo mismo. Yo y desdichado, antes que cualquier otro y jocundo.
~ Aldous Huxley
A beleza atrai, e nós não queremos que ninguém seja atraído pelas coisas antigas. Queremos que amem as novas.
~ Aldous Huxley
La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.
~ Aldous Huxley
Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.
~ Aldous Huxley
My dear papa! I much prefer a smart man of small height than a big dumb idiot!
~ Aleksandr Kuprin
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I am just saying that we have to have some things that we like, otherwise we shall be very unhappy. And if you are very unhappy you can die – we all know that.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
~ Alexander McCall Smith
One might forget so many exotic cheeses, he thought, but the memory of cheddar always remained. Should one be embarrassed by choosing cheddar every time? he asked. Matthew laughed. There's no need to apologize for simple things. But is cheddar simple? Domenica enquired. Just because there's a lot of it, does that make it simple?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
You should have seen him," she said. "A real ladies' man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Meat was what men liked in sandwiches—and if the man was sophisticated, then he might like a bit of mustard as well.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
James sniffed at the soup. "I love porcini to bits," he said. "They're the only mushroom I'd go out of my way for." "What about chanterelles?" said Matthew. "Porcini are delicious, but so are chanterelles.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas