Than Quotes

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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.