Than Quotes
17300 quotes by 8735 authors
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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would…
— Kevin Bacon
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The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years…
— Michele Bachmann
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
— Francis Bacon
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis Bacon
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
— Francis Bacon
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
— Francis Bacon
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
— Francis Bacon
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words,…
— Francis Bacon
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
— Francis Bacon
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
— Francis Bacon
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
— Francis Bacon
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and…
— Francis Bacon
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My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in…
— Kevin Bacon
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My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see…
— Kevin Bacon
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison…
— Michael Badnarik
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
— Walter Bagehot
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