1.   All the walls I gives three coats of brilliant white stone paint, easier to say than to do.

2.   And subcontracting is easier said than done, he said.

3.   Anyone who has struggled with weight gain knows the simple advice is easier said than done, but possible.

4.   As usual, however, one should pay less attention to what politicians say than to what they do.

5.   Besides, Keans admits, she is slightly less interested in what Dole says than how she says it.

6.   -- Worry more about what you say than about being quotable.

7.   After that, reporters, eyeing the huge challenge Super Tuesday presented, seemed interested less in what Bradley had to say than in when he would drop out.

8.   Again, easier said than done when your mind focuses instead on images of planes smashing into the World Trade Center towers.

9.   Aides like Eduard Ackermann on politics, Joachim Bitterlich on foreign matters, or Johannes Ludewig on the new Lander often enjoy more say than ministers.

10.   But achieving the munificent outpouring of community wallet-opening required to sustain an adequate social safety net in an age of government penny-pinching is easier said than done.