Than Quotes

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.