Than Quotes

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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