Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- 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
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
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
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
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
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
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
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
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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