Breed is stronger than pasture. [ George Eliot ]

Greater than man, less than woman. [ Essex, of Queen Elizabeth ]

What is more miserable than discontent? [ William Shakespeare ]

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. [ Bruyere ]

Contempt leaves a deeper scar than anger.

An artist should have more than two eyes. [ Lamartine ]

A shy face is better than a forward heart. [ Cervantes ]

It is better to wear out than to rust out. [ Bishop Cumberland ]

Conceit causes more conversation than wit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Begin by reading thyself rather than books. [ Rumi ]

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [ Dante ]

A little more than kin, and less than kind. [ William Shakespeare ]

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. [ Colton ]

An Englishman fears contempt more than death. [ Goldsmith ]

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [ La Fontaine ]

A good name is better than precious ointment. [ Bible ]

Dignity increases more easily than it begins. [ Seneca ]

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]

Curiosity has lost more young girls than love. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

The long days are no happier than the short ones. [ Bailey ]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

We take less pains to be happy than to appear so. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Children have more need of models than of critics. [ Joubert ]

Contentment is better than divinations or visions. [ Landor ]

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [ Horace ]

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. [ Horace ]

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. [ Garibaldi ]

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. [ Franklin ]

Blessedness is a whole eternity older than damnation. [ Jean Paul ]

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love. [ Vauvenargues ]

Nothing has a better effect upon children than praise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope. [ J. G. and A. W. Hare ]

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [ Tacitus ]

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. [ Bacon ]

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. [ Goethe ]

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. [ Chesterfield ]

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science. [ Hazlitt ]

There are more maids than Moggy, and more men than Jockey. [ Proverb ]

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. [ La Roche ]

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. [ Joubert ]

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. [ Ruskin ]

He hath more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults. [ Proverb ]

Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can. [ Carlyle ]

Conviction is oftener the child of Temperament than of Reason. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. [ St. Evremond ]

It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observance. [ William Shakespeare ]

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. [ Victor Hugo ]

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. [ Hazlitt ]

Old houses mended cost little less than new before they're ended. [ Gibber ]

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal. [ L'Estrange ]

The king is greater than each singly, but less than all unitedly. [ Bracton ]

Art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates. [ John Opie ]

More than we use is more than we want, and a burden to the bearer. [ Proverb ]

One single positive weighs more. You know, than negatives a score. [ Prior ]

One blushes oftener from the wounds of self love than from modesty. [ Mme. Guibert ]

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously. [ Bacon ]

Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them. [ Tyrius Maximus ]

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. [ C. C. Colton ]

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else. [ Niebuhr ]

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. [ Greville ]

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power of dominion. [ Addison ]

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [ La Bruyere ]

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature? [ Lessing ]

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. [ Auerbach ]

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. [ Herder ]

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. [ Tennyson ]

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. [ R. H. Dana ]

Liberality consists less in giving profusely than in giving judiciously. [ Bruygre ]

Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than the old one. [ Proverb ]

How much easier do we find it to commend a good action than to imitate it. [ Anon ]

It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. [ William Shakespeare ]

He speaks home; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is but one object greater than the soul, and that one is its Creator. [ St. Augustine ]

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Good men can more easily see through bad men than the latter can the former. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

It is want of diligence rather than want of means that causes most failures. [ Alfred Mercier ]

Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. [ Martial ]

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. [ Denis Diderot ]

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor. [ W. R. Alger ]

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read. [ Dr. Potter ]

No better armor against the darts of death than to be busied in God's service. [ Thomas Fuller ]

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. [ Charron ]

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. [ W. B. Clulow ]

He who has less than he desires should know that he has more than he deserves. [ Lichtenberg ]

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. [ Byron ]

A great thing is a great book, but greater than all is the talk of a great man. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of beauty. [ Schlegel ]

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either. [ Thackeray ]