Better Quotes

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.