Than Quotes

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Rather be dead than cool.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.