Quotes about than

John D. Rockefeller -

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Gertrude Stein -

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Tea Obreht -

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Aeschylus -

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Harriet Ann Jacobs -

Death is better than slavery.

Ferdinand Mount -

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Ludwig van Beethoven -

Music comes to me more readily than words.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Marcel Proust -

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Elvis Costello -

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Andy Rooney -

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Althea Gibson -

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Dennis Rodman -

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

Joe E. Lewis -

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Sally Ride -

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

Henry Spencer -

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Aesop -

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Martin Heidegger -

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Noel Coward -

Work is much more fun than fun.

Jean Nouvel -

My buildings are more famous than me.

David Beckham -

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

Anderson Cooper -

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

Meir Soloveichik -

Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

Barry Gibb -

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Joni Mitchell -

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Kenneth G. Wilson -

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Pharrell Williams -

Fashion is more about feel than science.

William Osler -

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Joseph B. Wirthlin -

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

Euripides -

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Miguel Indurain -

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld -

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Ray Kroc -

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Ric Flair -

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

George MacDonald -

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Paul Tonko -

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

Nora Roberts -

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Albert Camus -

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Horace Walpole -

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Spike Lee -

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Mary Shelley -

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

Gregory David Roberts -

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

George Herbert -

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

David Steinberg -

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Peter L. Bergen -

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

William Tecumseh Sherman -

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

Peter Abelard -

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

Marquis de Sade -

What is more immoral than war?

Xavier Becerra -

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

John Keats -

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Matthew McConaughey -

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Michel de Montaigne -

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

George Bernard Shaw -

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

e. e. cummings -

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Robert Wagner -

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld -

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

John Donne -

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Igor Stravinsky -

What force is more potent than love?

Kurt Cobain -

Rather be dead than cool.

Solange Knowles -

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

Lou Gehrig -

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Queen Latifah -

I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

Rodney Frelinghuysen -

There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.

George Jean Nathan -

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Stendhal -

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

John Steinbeck -

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Aristotle -

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Confucius -

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

William Lyon Mackenzie King -

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

Publilius Syrus -

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Adam Smith -

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Samuel Johnson -

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

James Howell -

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Neil deGrasse Tyson -

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Woody Allen -

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Al Green -

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

William Wordsworth -

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Edwin Markham -

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Cory Lidle -

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

Anwar Sadat -

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

George Bernard Shaw -

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Mahatma Gandhi -

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

William James -

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

Andrew Lang -

Life's more amusing than we thought.

William Ellery Channing -

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Abraham Cahan -

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Douglas Horton -

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

John Shelton Reed -

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

Bob Dylan -

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

P. J. O'Rourke -

More modern poetry is written than read.

George Will -

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Seamus Heaney -

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Billy Collins -

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

Robert Morgan -

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Julius Caesar -

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Mario Puzo -

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca -

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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