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.
If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that thing...
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's goi...
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars t...
O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge, and do not hold me responsible for wh...
I was there for every moment. It made me a better woman and a better person. I can't say that all the damage done by my original family doesn't still haunt me; it does. But my life would have been bereft of deeper meaning and experiences without marr...
