Than Quotes

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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.