Than Quotes

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.