Than Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Character is more important than talent.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.