Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.[Robin Williams] Quote:I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretzky & The Pope combined![Homer Simpson] Quote:It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.[George Patton] Quote:Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.[Saint Augustine] Quote:More than kisses, letters mingle souls.[John Donne] Quote:A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:It requires more courage to suffer than to die.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.[Mother Teresa] Quote:As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.[Julius Caesar] Quote:It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.[Julius Caesar] Quote:The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.[Susan B. Anthony] Quote:I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.[Brigham Young] Quote:Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Your children need your presence more than your presents.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.[Joseph Addison] Quote:Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.[Francis Bacon] Quote:An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Well done is better than well said.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.[Jeseph Joubert] Quote:As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.[Dave Barry] Quote:Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.[Dave Barry] Quote:We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.[Author Unknown] Quote:Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.[Author Unknown] Quote:The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings![Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.[Konrad von Gesner] Quote:Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.[WT Purkiser] Quote:Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?[Philip Hamerton] Quote:The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The humblest citizen of all the land; when clad in the armour of a righteous cause; is stronger than all the hosts of Error.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The worst moment for the athieist is when he feels thankful and has no one to thank.[Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Quote:If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?[GK Chesterton] Quote:Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.[E.B. White] Quote:The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.[Robert Frost] Quote:Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I can't think of a better way to spread the message of world peace than by working with the NFL and being part of Super Bowl XXVII.[Michael Jackson] Quote:An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry] Quote:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[Dave Barry] Quote:The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read, and they have far more teeth than would be necessary for a strictly seafood diet. Their mouths look like the entire $39.95 set of Ginsu knives, including the handy Arm Slicer.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.[Adelle Davis] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.[Edmund Burke] Quote:In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.[Aristotle] Quote:Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.[Aristotle] Quote:A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Creditors have better memories than debtors.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Experts often possess more data than judgment.[Colin Powell] Quote:A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.[Mark Twain] Quote:Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.[Mark Twain] Quote:Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.[Mark Twain] Quote:Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.[Mark Twain] Quote:It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.[Stephen King] Quote:Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.[Stephen King] Quote:The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.[Stephen King] Quote:There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.[Frank Tyger] Quote:Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.[Aristotle] Quote:An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.[Bill Cosby] Quote:In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Character is much easier kept than recovered.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Time makes more converts than reason.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A stream cannot rise larger than its source.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is better to be alone than in bad company.[George Washington] Quote:It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.[George Washington] Quote:There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.[Author Unknown] Quote:Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:It is better to be quotable than to be honest.[Tom Stoppard] Quote:Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.[Martin Farquhar Tupper] Quote:Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.[Confucius] Quote:Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.[Confucius] Quote:If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Old age is fifteen years older than I am.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.[Saint Augustine] Quote:If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.[Margo Kaufman] Quote:The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step.[Dick Hubbard] Quote:Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.[Woody Allen] Quote:Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.[Author Unknown] Quote:Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:The curve is more powerful than the sword.[Mae West] Quote:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.[Helen Keller] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I'd rather hear an old truth than a new lie.[Chris Bowyer] Quote:More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.[Woody Allen] Quote:I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.[George Burns] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.[Ludwig Wittgenstein] Quote:There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.[Mark Twain] Quote:I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:There is more to life than increasing its speed.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I would rather be governor of California than own Austria.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:We firmly believe there is more to life than money, beer, and sex. We just don't know what it is.[Aaron Shapiro] Quote:It's easier to build a boy than to mend a man.[Charles Gavin] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.[Francis Bacon] Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.[Mark Twain] Quote:Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.[Niels Bohr] Quote:Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.[Ayn Rand] Quote:An unjust peace is better than a just war.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.[George Burns] Quote:The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.[John Rockefeller] Quote:I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.[Michael Jordan] Quote:There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.[Woody Allen] Quote:Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?[George Carlin] Quote:It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:Thinking is more precious than all five senses.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.[Amy Bloom] Quote:Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.[William Shakespeare] Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.[H.G. Wells] Quote:For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.[George MacDonald] Quote:To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.[George MacDonald] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.[Douglas Adams] Quote:True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action![Albert Einstein] Quote:Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.[Jack Handey] Quote:If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.[Jack Handey] Quote:Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.[Jack Handey] Quote:When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.[Douglas Adams] Quote:A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.[Ben Jonson] Quote:I love acting. It is so much more real than life.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.[Will Rogers] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.[Jenkin Lloyd Jones] Quote:The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.[Amanda Grier] Quote:A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.[Humphrey Bogart] Quote:What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.[Henny Youngman] Quote:A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Death is not the worst than can happen to men.[Plato] Quote:You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.[Plato] Quote:We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.[Robert Wilensky] Quote:Man is more ape than many of the apes.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. [Cato the Elder] Quote:But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. [E. M. Forster] Quote:Creditors have better memories than debtors. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Nothing is stronger than habit. [Ovid] Quote:Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. [Henry Miller] Quote:I find nothing more depressing than optimism. [Peter Ustinov] Quote:It is better to be envied than pitied. [Herodotus] Quote:The truth is more important than the facts. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. [Edmund Burke] Quote:Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. [Edmund Burke] Quote:Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. [Aeschylus] Quote:You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. [Josh Brand and John Falsey] Quote:There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed. [Anonymous] Quote:In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. [Meister Eckhart] Quote:The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. [Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Wagner's music is better than it sounds. [Chuck] Quote:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. [Craig Volk] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. [Cicero] Quote:There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. [Cicero] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. [Isaac Newton] Quote:A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. [Andre Gide] Quote:Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. [Ann Landers] Quote:There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. [F. Scott Fitzgerald] Quote:The palest ink is better than the best memory. [Chinese Proverb] Quote:Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. [Lord Acton] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. [Hippocrates] Quote:Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. [Jules Renard] Quote:It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. [Frank Herbert] Quote:Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. [Barbara Hall] Quote:They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. [David Assael] Quote:If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." [David Assael] Quote:There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. [Michel de Montaigne] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. [Adelle Davis] Quote:Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:I love acting. It is so much more real than life. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. [Plutarch] Quote:All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. [George Orwell] Quote:Actions lie louder than words. [Confucius] Quote:There are more fools in the world than there are people. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. [Alan Corenk] Quote:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. [Epictetus] Quote:I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. [Epictetus] Quote:Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:Imagination is more important than knowledge... [Albert Einstein] Quote:Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. [Helen Keller] Quote:The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. [Muhammad Ali] Quote:It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. [J. K. Rowling] Quote:And malt does more than Milton can<br> To justify God's ways to man. [A. E. Housman] Quote:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. [Euripides] Quote:Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. [Euripides] Quote:The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. [Anthelme Brillat-Savarin] Quote:Silence is more musical than any song. [Christina Rossetti] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:A good reputation is more valuable than money. [Publilius Syrus] Quote:Management is nothing more than motivating other people. [Lee Iacocca] Quote:And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. [Anais Nin] Quote:Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. [Robert Frost] Quote:I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. [Gerry Spence] Quote:A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. [Bernard M. Baruch] Quote:It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else. [Jane Wagner] Quote:Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. [P. D. James] Quote:It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] Quote:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. [Sallust] Quote:There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. [Richard Feynman] Quote:The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. [Will Rogers] Quote:The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. [Will Rogers] Quote:The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. [Joan Baez] Quote:Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Quote:Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. [Lord Chesterfield] Definitions of: thanDefinition: A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want. |
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