Than Quotes

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

I never cut class. I loved getting As, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.