Than Quotes

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

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.

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.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

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.