There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.
I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
Cleanliness is important, and more than that is the physical fitness to attain healthy body and mind.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can’t stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
There’s nothing more important than our good health – that’s our principal capital asset.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.
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.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
I’d rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.
No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She’s thicker.
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
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.
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
