Than Quotes

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.