Than Quotes

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.