Time makes more converts than reason.
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?
Rather be dead than cool.
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
Tar sands oil is dirtier, more corrosive, and worse for the environment than conventional oil.
Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
I'm taller than most actresses, so most corsets tend to be too short in the body.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
