Than Quotes

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.