B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Better not exert yourself. Not in your condition,” he says, and reaches down and pats my abdomen.
Oh, right. I'm supposed to be pregnant,”
“Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.”
“Better not think too much. Relying more on the body: it is more trustworthy.”
“Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Better not to exist than live basely.”
“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
“Better not to give in to it.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.”
“Better not to work on things that you're not in love with.”
“Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.”
Source: Selling Manhattan
“Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
Source: The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations
“Better one flower that withers than a hundred that never bloomed.”
“Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Better one suffer than a nation grieve.”
“Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.”
“Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.”
“Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes." That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.”
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
Source: Dubliners
“Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.”
“Better patience than power, better to have self-control than to conquer a city.
Why?
Because patience brings power through adversity and to have self-control is to be self-governed which in turn of exchange opens the door of kingship to conquer a city.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“Better people make better distillers”
Source: Still Magic: A gin distiller’s guide for beginners
“Better philosophize today for pleasure and joy than tomorrow because of necessity.”
“Better pointed bullets than pointed words.”
“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”
Source: Aesop’s Fables
“Better poverty without care, than riches with.”
Source: Aesop's Fables 01-30 (伊索寓言（第一篇至第三十篇）)
“Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.”
“Better ramp up your virtual relationships. Companies think omni channel is the correct answer. This is not enough. The information explosion for consumers makes 24/7 and full and complete engagement possible.”
“Better readers are better thinkers.”
“Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“Better realize WHEN to move away from toxic people and toxic situations”
“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”
Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs
“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.”
“Better safe than exsanguinated.”
Source: Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files
“Better safe than sorry. That's my motto.”
“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
“Better schooling may help you grab a better degree. But for winning in life you must learn from the hard battlefields of social living.”
“Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.”
“Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.”
“Better sexy and racy Than sexist and racist”
“Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow”
Source: The Wicked King
“Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.”
“Better sleepless for justice than soulless in indifference - better sleepless for equality than soulless in apathy - better sleepless for harmony than soulless in complacency.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Better slow down than bog down!”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.
[Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]”
“Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose