B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Better a life with freedom of expression under international GUARDIANSHIP than a life of repression under a theocratic DICTATORSHIP.”
“Better a lion in sheep's skin, than a sheep in lion's skin.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Better a little caution than a great regret.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
Source: The Plato Collection [47 Books]
“Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”
Source: The Left Hand of God
“Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.”
“Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.”
“Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn’t always mean that it’s not the right direction for both of them.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.”
“Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”
“Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.”
“Better a mess that exists than a perfect, utopian, non-existent reality that only lives in somebody's dream and waits to become a reality some unknown day.”
“Better a pink bottom than a black soul.”
“Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.”
Source: Mover of Men and Mountains
“Better a refugee than prisoner.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Better a refugee than prisoner
(Sonnet 1555)
Eon upon eon I seek for a refuge,
Land upon land I receive but coldness.
Last I stand at your door exhausted,
Spare some warmth, for my heart freezes!
Stateless, cultless, I walk the planet.
Restless, sleepless, I live a dream.
Friendless, loveless, I brave the mission.
The being is dissolved for the beacon to beam.
Wield, I do, my conscience as compass.
Wear, I do, my backbone as battery.
Bouts of tragedy only amplifies my thunder,
Nature's bare mockery makes miracle of me.
Borders are for hoarders, my home is the world.
Better a refugee to the sea than prisoner of the pond.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Better a refugee to the sea than prisoner of the pond.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”
Source: The Alcestis
“Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.”
“Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.”
“Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.”
“Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.”
Source: The Light Bearer
“Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.”
“Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!”
“Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.”
“Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.”
Source: The American seasons
“Better a thousand times take one's chance with death, than accept a life one did not want.”
Source: Women in Love
“Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.”
“Better a tooth out than always aching.”
“Better a traitor to the border
than a traitor to humanity,
better an enemy of the state
than enemy of humanity.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Better a trickster than a martyr be."
What's the difference between a martyr and a trickster, you ask?
Here's a quick primer.
Martyr energy is dark, solemn, macho, hierarchical, fundamentalist, austere, unforgiving, and profoundly rigid.
Trickster energy is light, sly, transgender, transgressive, animist, seditious, primal, and endlessly shape-shifting.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
“Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Better all head back to the jungle
than some fly in private jets
while others cry of hunger.
Better have no progress whatsoever,
than the rich get richer, and the poor poorer.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Better alone than badly accompanied.”
“Better an egalitarian infidel than a dogmatizing evangelist.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Better an empty house than a bad tenant’ and ‘something is better than nothing’- these proverbs are contradictory! 1st one says, ‘it is better not to have something than having something’ but 2nd one says, ‘it is better to have something than not having something’! If the tenant is bad, then he is rejectable as per 1st proverb but acceptable as per 2nd one. The two proverbs are balanced if we say, ‘something good is better than nothing’!”
“Better an if then, than an oops.”
Source: You By You
“Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.”
“Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.”
“Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.”
Source: Livy: Books XXVIII-XXX
“Better are the blows of a friend than the flase kisses of an enemy.”
“Better ask God to change you, rather than to change your situations for you. Your situations may change, but if you still have a negative attitude, you are likely to take that great change for granted! Change You!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Better Associations:
If you associate yourself with a change maker,
Your life will by all means become better.
You will wink at challenges and begin to think.
In times of frustrations, you will not sink.
If you miss the way to a great destination,
Just look for those going to that direction.
Mount the shoulders of a giant believer
And you will become a great achiever.
People around you determine your speed.
They will influence the growth of your seed.
People you are around will decide your strength
And also the figure of your success’ length
I trust you want to become a better you.
It matters, what your associates plan to do.
It depends, where your companions want to go.
It relies on what your friends believe and know.
Quit friendships that build you nothing
Choose friends who bring out of you something
One iron sharpens another iron
Go along with great people and ride on.”
Source: Become a Better You
“Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.”
“Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.”
“Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.”