Than Quotes

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

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.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.