Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because a...
After all, what else did we have going for us? Nothing, except we ran like crazy and stuck together. Humans are among the most comunal and cooperative of all primates; our sole defense in a fang-filled world was our solidarity, and there's no reason ...
The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by 'better' such things as more capable in negotiation, more imaginative in executive skil...
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within.
Better to kiss an ugly woman than to lick yourself.
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years.
Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds.
It is better not to begin than, having begun, leave unfinished.
Better a bite from a friend than a caress from an enemy.
A penny saved is better than a florin earned.
Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy.
Better once in heaven than ten times at the gate.
Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap.
Better a good conscience without wisdom than wisdom without a good conscience.
Better ask twice than go wrong once.
Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.
There are no bad beers; some kinds are better than others.
When the ear does not hear the eye will see better.
Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.
