Than Quotes

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.