It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.
Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.
Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?
That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.
Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Pain is always preferable to numbness.
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
