Than Quotes

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.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.