Than Quotes

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.