It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
A friendship that can end never really began.
- 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
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
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
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
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
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
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
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
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
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
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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
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
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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