Better Quotes
25349 quotes by 12013 authors
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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.
— Pietro Aretino
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create…
— Aristotle
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left…
— J. J. Abrams
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam…
— Karen Armstrong
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The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we…
— Isaac Asimov
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no…
— John James Audubon
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
— Jane Austen
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
— Jane Austen
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness…
— Jane Austen
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
— Paul Auster
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As…
— Teresa of Avila
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to…
— Diane Ackerman
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
— Richard Bach
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That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a…
— Sebastian Bach
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