Than Quotes

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.