Than Quotes

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

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.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.