Than Quotes

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.