Than Quotes

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.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.