Than Quotes

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.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.