Nearer Quotes & Sayings
These nearer quotes and nearer sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.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. - Adam Smith
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. - Cicero [Marcus Tullius Cicero]
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? - Khalil Gibran
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. - Henry David Thoreau
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato [Aristocles]
And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus. Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour. - Lord Byron
I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly) and says, 'Here, you can go. - Steven Wright