Than Quotes

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.