Than Quotes

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.