Than Quotes

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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.

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.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.