Better to have a friend on the road than gold and silver in your purse.
Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.
It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.
It is better to have bread left over than to run short of wine.
A piece of bread in your pocket is better than a feather in your hat.
Better your enemy who you recognize than a dark friend.
Better ten times ill than one time dead.
One old friend is better than two new ones.
One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains.
As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.
In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter.
The fool does what he can't avoid, the wise man avoids what he can't do.
The wise man doesn't say what he does but he never does what can't be said.
The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends.
A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
If the fool has a hunchback no one remarks about it; if a wise man has a boil everybody talks about it.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
