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
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
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
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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 far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington 
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- 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
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
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
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
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
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
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
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