Than Quotes

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.