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It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
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I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
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
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
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
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
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
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
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
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
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
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
It is better to have your head in the clouds,
and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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