Than Quotes

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.