Than Quotes

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

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

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.