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It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
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It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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