Than Quotes (page 648)

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• memorial
• wonderful
• inspired

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times. Henry David Thoreau

• death
• little
• socialize

I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• hope
• green
• hand

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is, any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Walt Whitman

• liars
• saying
• king

Tell thou the King and all his liars, that IHave founded my Round Table in the North, And whatsoever his own knights have sworn. My knights have sworn the counter to it -- and say. My tower is full of harlots, like his court, But mine are worthier, seeing thy profess. To be none other than themselves -- and say. My knights are all adulterers like his own, But mine are truer, seeing they profess. To be none other; and say his hour is come, The heathen are upon him, his long lance. Broken, and... Alfred Lord Tennyson

• bad
• some
• nor

Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags. Victor Hugo

• food
• travel
• family vacation

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. Barbara Kingsolver

• women
• sicily
• dangerously

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. Mario Puzo

• sleep
• own

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own. Nelson Algren

• nature
• believe
• unhappy

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! Alexander Dumas

• god
• manly
• gods

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• achievement
• true
• philosophy

Noone has yet succeeded in inventing a philosophy at once credible and self-consistent. Locke aimed at credibility, and achieved it at the expense of consistency. Most of the great philosophers have done the opposite. A philosophy which is not self-consistent cannot be wholly true, but a philosophy which is self-consistent can very well be wholly false. The most fruitful philosophies have contained glaring inconsistencies, but for that very reason have been partially true. There is no reason... Bertrand Russell

• political
• grace
• cold

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything. Jane Austen

• chestnuts
• conversation
• punning

These napkins are more holy than righteous? Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just such chestnuts, saws and hoary puns. John Cheever

• kindness
• be kind
• being kind

It's better to be kind than to be right. Anne Lamott

• reading
• world
• mind

Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds. Christopher Morley