#than

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ↗

— Al Capone

#farther #get #gun #kind #kind word

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. ↗

— Al Capp

#ignorant #just #listened #my own #nobody

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. ↗

— Phoebe Cary

#been #before #comes #ever #home

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#blood #civilization #differences #human #letting

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet. ↗

— Joan Chen

#budget #films #lowest #shooting #ten

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#cook #easier #socrates #than #woman

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#decided #domestic #fellow #how #know

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#celebrated #mistake #more #people #poetry

It's been a year of many more downs than ups. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#downs #many #more #than #ups