Than Quotes

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.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

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.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

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.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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.'