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# Weekend Words: More
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-more/
- Published: 2016-03-27T14:30:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:29:37.000Z
- Description: "We loved with a love that was more than love."
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

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Hans Holbein the Younger, “Sir Thomas More” (1527-28), black and colored chalks on paper, 397 x 299 mm. Royal Collection, London (Image via Web Gallery of Art)

Today is the 130th birthday of [Mies (Less is More) van der Rohe](http://www.miessociety.org/legacy/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

> “When *I* use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you *can* make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”  
>  
> **—Lewis Carroll, *Through the Looking-Glass***

> Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.  
>  
> **—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe**

> And I learned there are troubles  
> Of more than one kind.  
> Some come from ahead  
> And some come from behind.  
>  
> But I’ve brought a big bat.  
> I’m all ready, you see.  
> Now my troubles are going  
> To have troubles with *me!*  
>  
> **—Dr. Seuss, *I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew***

> The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn’t there.  
>  
> **—A. A. Milne, *The House at Pooh Corner***

> All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.  
>  
> **—George Orwell, *Animal Farm***

> Longer than always is long long time,  
> But far beyond forever you’ll be mine  
> I know I never lived before and my heart is very sure  
> No one else could love you more  
>  
> **—Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Norman Newell, “More (Theme from *Mondo Cane*)”**

> Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.  
>  
> **—Susan B. Anthony**

> It was more than just any old Friday night fight  
> With your mean left hook and my roundhouse right  
> We were both goin’ for the heavyweight crown  
> TKO in the very first round  
>  
> **—Bonnie Raitt, “Split Decision”**

> The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!  
>  
> **—Jane Austen, *Sense and Sensibility***

> We loved with a love that was more than love.  
>  
> **—Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”**

> A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.  
>  
> **—H. L. Mencken**

> Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.  
>  
> **—Karl Marx**

> More. More. More.  
>  
> **—Vera B. Williams, *“More More More,” Said The Baby***

> Please, sir, I want some more.  
>  
> **—Charles Dickens, *Oliver Twist***

> One more cup of coffee for the road  
> One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go.  
> To the valley below.  
>  
> **—Bob Dylan, “One More Cup of Coffee”**

> No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.  
>  
> **—Richard M. Nixon**

> How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.  
>  
> **—Neville Chamberlain**

> Gonna wash you up, and wash you down,  
> Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down.  
> I got fury in my soul, fury’s gonna take me to the glory goal  
> In my mind I can’t study war no more.  
>  
> **— Laura Nyro, “Save the Country”**