Than Quotes

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

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

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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.

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.

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.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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.