Than Quotes

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.