If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
It is good to know the truth and to speak the truth. It is even better to know the truth and speak about palm trees.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Proverbs 21:9
It's better to die two years early than to live one year too long.
It's better to do good in the neighborhood than to burn incense far away.
Better reap two days too soon than one too late.
To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
It is better if you could say "Here he ran away" than "Here he was killed."
It is better to receive awards that you don't deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them.
Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.
One day before you is better than ten years behind you.
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.
Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong.
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
