Prefer

Famous quotes containing the word prefer:

“I prefer to finish my education at a different school.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A: Your friendship has become a burden. B: Do you prefer to be affronted by my indifference?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)