Than Quotes

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Rather be dead than cool.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.