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.
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.
Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift you, or the women believed it. They hadn't yet see...
And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.
