Quotes with than

Quotes 281 till 300 of 4180.

  • H. Manning A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
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  • Aesop A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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  • Josh Billings A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aesop A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Thornton Wilder A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Alexander Haig A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Oliver Cromwell A few honest men are better than numbers.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Stanley Kubrick A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Agnes de Mille A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Dwight L. Moody A good example is far better than a good precept.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • E. B. White A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Emily Brontë A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • George S. Patton A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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