Than Quotes

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.