What one hopes for is always better than what one has.
Better ten people hurt than one dead.
Enough is better than too much.
Better a night full of anger than a night full of repentance.
Better wise language than well combed hair.
It is better to be condemned by many doctors than by one judge.
The tar of my country is better than the honey of others.
Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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.
