Than Quotes

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

We are wiser than we know.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

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.

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.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.