It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
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 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
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
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
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
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
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 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
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 light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
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
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
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
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
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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