Than Quotes

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.