Than Quotes

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.