Than Quotes

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.