Than Quotes

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Character is more important than talent.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.