Than Quotes

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

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.