Than Quotes

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Well done is better than well said.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.