If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing? Or that, in writing, there's nothing you can ...
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
A heart free from care is better than a full purse.
Better make profit out of manure than losses with musk.
Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Proverbs 27:5
One devil that you know is better than twenty that you don't.
A man thinks that he knows it, but his wife knows better.
If you are going to have a roast, a chicken is better than a phoenix.
Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a brocade.
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Better a goat that can give milk than a cow that cannot.
It is better to be without a wife for a minute than without tobacco for an hour.
One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.
Small profits and often, are better than large profits and seldom.
To have five drachmas in the hand is better than ten drachmas on paper.
It is better to talk to a woman and think of God, than talk to God and think of a woman.
It's better to fly and stay alive than to die a hero.
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.