Your own rags are better than another's gown.
A louse in the cabbage is better than no meat at all.
Corn will look better in your neighbor's field.
Better to have friends in the marketplace than money in your coffers.
Better a dove on the plate than a woodgrouse in the mating place.
It's better to be a cripple than always sitting down.
A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
Better to be a cuckold and not know it than to not be one and everybody say so.
Forsake not God till you find a better master.
Better to eat bread in peace, then cake amid turmoil.
A donkey decked in gold is better than an over-laden horse.
Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.
Work improves the harvest better than the field itself.
Better pain in your purse than in your heart.
It is better to be threatened by the sword of a Turk than by the pen of a German.
Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
A good name is better than good habits.
Better a Jew without a beard than a beard without a Jew.
I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a dark, intimate kiva- where the work of vigil is taking place, the necessary attending. I imagine there’s a little fire burning in there, a f...
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a gr...
The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a...
