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.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Better never than late.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.