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.
If you believe everything you read, you had better not read.
It's better to drink and feel sick than not to drink and feel bad.
If you can't dance well, you'd better not get up.
Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
It is better to skip one meal than to consult a hundred doctors.
It is better to make money in the straw market than to lose it in the money market.
Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
It is better to be without a wife for a bit than without tobacco for an hour.
It is better to lose a minute in your life, than to lose your life in a minute.
A clock that stands still is better than one that goes wrong.
Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.
Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.
There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.
Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer.
I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?
Good plan," Freddy was saying. "Let's get some decent sleep. Tomorrow we can shake our gravy asses into town and do some sluething.
