It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
