Than Quotes

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.