Than Quotes

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.