#than

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine II

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#i #men #much #rather #statue

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#pen #sharp #short #sword #than

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#examples #forcible #i #look #mean

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#curse #darkness #light #sometimes #than

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#loved #more #more people #people #than

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#country #elsewhere #england #longer #man

Life has a higher end, than to be amused. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#amused #end #higher #than

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#desire #fashion #inspires #rather #science

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault. ↗

— James Chiles

#know #more #skin #than #vault