Than Quotes

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.