Than Quotes

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.