Than Quotes

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.