Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
You will usually find two kind of people around Some Sympathetic and Some Antipathetic and I'm not concerned with the former
The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
