B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Better is to bow than break.”
“Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.”
“Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.”
Source: Dhammapada
“Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”
“Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.”
“Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.”
“Better it were not to live than to live a coward.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch
“Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.”
“Better keep such things decently buried.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Better kind and be deceived.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Better kind than correct,
Better idiot than arrogant.
Better ignorant than bigoted,
Better exploited than indifferent.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Better kind than correct,
Better idiot than arrogant.
Better ignorant than bigoted,
Better exploited than indifferent.
Better broke than bent,
Better naive than narcissist.
Better mistaken than mindless,
Better broken than a cheat.
Better wrong than cruel,
Better ridiculed than rigid.
Better shattered than shallow,
Better ignited than idjit.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing.”
“Better laid than never.”
“Better late than never.”
“Better late than never."-Dork Diaries”
“Better late than sorry!”
“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“better life. As the beneficiaries of their courage, we in the next generation are responsible for keeping their stories alive so
that our great-great-grandchildren will know their roots and, in the face of adversity, will remember that they are descended from wide-eyed dreamers who never gave up on their goal.”
Source: We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
“Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have.”
“Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Better live a King, than a Prince.”
“Better look idiot and learn, than be proud and stagnant.”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“Better lose life than character.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“Better lose me than lose a state.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“Better lose truth, than lose your humanity. Better lose truth, than lose love.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Better lose your life than your soul.”
Source: Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More
“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.”
“Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.”
“Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.”
“Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.”
“Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.”
“Better might a worm withstand the tread of an elephant than the puny creature resist the Almighty.”
Source: Gleanings in Exodus
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world, is good for people (though clearly at a very different level). Pace Levis-Strauss — books are good to think and books are good to be. Books have unique affordances — do things that other media cannot do as well, or at all. Reading books exercises our imaginations (which we will need to break the mind-shackles our overlords are fitting us for); reading books offers us opportunities to expand our ability to connect; reading books encourages the trickster force within, which is play.
Right now there’s a whole museum-movement built around staring at a painting for ten minutes, excellent in and of itself, but books hear this and they're like, Ten minutes?! Hold my Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster! Books command our attention for hours, days, weeks, months, years — sometimes for whole lives. Reading books regenerates our ability to focus, to stay mindful.
Screens do certain things very well, but collectively what they do best is naturalizing the hysterical reactive lizard logic of our capitalist vampire-squid hegemons. They convince us that to be alive is to capitalist vampire-squid all day, all night.
Reading is the zafa for that particularly unbearable fukú. Reading leads us away from the Sunken Place of neoliberal capital, back to the Slow Zone of human thought and human feeling. The Slow Zone where all that truly matters for prospering — deliberation, moderation, imagination, compassion, resilience — is possible. Books are a Slow Zone oasis that can reawaken and sustain us through this age of digital decimation.”
“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Better moods = better performance.”
“Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.”
Source: Barney's Version
“Better naive and fearless than smart and anxious.”
“Better never begin than never make an end.”
“Better never begin; once begun, better finish.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Better never than late.”
“Better never to have met you in my dream, than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.”
“Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.”
“Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.”
“Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion