Than Quotes

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

I never cut class. I loved getting As, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.