Quotes of: Better-thing Keyword

Better to have a friend on the road than gold and silver in your purse.

French

Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.

Indian

It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.

Indian

It is better to have bread left over than to run short of wine.

Spanish

A piece of bread in your pocket is better than a feather in your hat.

Swedish

Better your enemy who you recognize than a dark friend.

Turkish

Better ten times ill than one time dead.

Yiddish

It is better to be in hell with a wise man than in heaven with an idiot.

Yiddish

One old friend is better than two new ones.

Yiddish

One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains.

Yugoslavian

People believe things that aren't true about other people just because of how they look and what kind of vehicle they drive. Why can you not wait and see who they are inside before you make a decision". "Because we're afraid" I said. "If I had truste...

From a Distant Star

History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came up with. When people compete to achieve the same goal, great things seem to happen that otherwise w...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution....

Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature

Everyone tells a story about themselves in their own head. That story makes you what you are, dictating all your actions and all your mistakes. If your own story is filled with guilt and fear and self-hatred, life can look pretty miserable.But, if yo...

Leo

Nick Fury: I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things. Clint Barton: Well I see better from a distance. Nick Fury: Are you seeing anything that might set this thing off? Clint Barton: No one's come or gone. And Selvig's clean. No ...

The Avengers

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Deadline

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

Everything Is Illuminated

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

Eat, Pray, Love

STOP wishing for a better tomorrow...when you can keep working for a better today!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

A Book of Burlesques

They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ