B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Better start rushing before the rush begins!”
“Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.”
“Better still [than pure sugar] was the remedy known as theriac, the root of the English word 'treacle,' which was kept in ornate ceramic jars on the shelves of every self-respecting apothecary shop. The name comes from the Greek therion, meaning 'venomous animal,' for theriac was supposed in Classical times to counteract all venoms and poisons.”
Source: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
“Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.”
Source: 道德经
“Better storytelling can overcome our deepest barriers.”
Source: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
“Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
[Better suffer ill, than do ill.]”
“Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.”
“Better ten days of love than years of regretting.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4
“Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.”
“Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.”
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.”
“Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.”
“Better than a thousand machine learning models, is one Data Scientist that brings value to the organization.”
“Better than an orgasm? Clearly the woman was having lousy orgasms.”
Source: Playing by Her Rules
“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”
Source: Farming: A Hand Book
“Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.”
“Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.”
“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”
Source: We Were Liars
“Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.”
“Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.”
Source: Five Books of Song
“Better than I was, more than I am
And all of this happen by taking your hand
And who I am now is who I wanted to be
And now that we're together
I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free”
“Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.”
“Better than merely "seeing" the "sense" of people's actions is "feeling" the sense of what they are doing. Going along with the line of their wordings and nonverbal cues helps us gain a deeper understanding of their thinking and intentions. We can thus interpret their message and respond to their expectations. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance”
“Better than nothing is not good enough for you!”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.”
“Better than self-help is unself-help.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.”
“Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!”
“Better than that orange crap you wear!”
“Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.”
“Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.”
“Better than training is controlling your own environment.”
Source: sciVive
“Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.”
“Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.”
“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”
Source: Night
“Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.”
“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”
“Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.”
“Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.”
“Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.”
“Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.”