Than Quotes

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.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.