Than Quotes

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.