B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Better the blue silence and the gray west,
The autumn mist on the river,
And not any hate and not any love,
And not anything at all of the keen and the deep:
Only the peace of a dog head on a barn floor,
And the new corn shoveled in bushels
And the pumpkins brought from the corn rows,
Umber lights of the dark,
Umber lanterns of the loam dark.
Here a dog head dreams.
Not any hate, not any love.
Not anything but dreams.
Brother of dusk and umber.”
Source: Selected poems
“Better the butcher than the meat.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.”
Source: Smoke and Shadows
“Better the deeds, luckier you get.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't”
Source: The Inheritance Games
“Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.”
“Better the devils you know than the one you don't.”
Source: Jane and the Damned
“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”
Source: As Sure as the Dawn
“Better the feet slip then the tongue.”
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”
Source: Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
“Better the last smile than the first laughter.”
Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index; in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases
“Better the middle sister than the mother. Middle sisters are forgotten or failed or ill-fated, but at least they survive, mostly; mothers rarely make it past the first line. They die, as gently and easily as flowers wilting, and leave their three daughters exposed to all the wickedness of the world.”
“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
“Better the poorest of real faith at work than the best ideal of it left in the region of speculation.”
Source: All of Grace: Know That God's Gift of Salvation Is Absolutely Free and Available to Everyone
“Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled”
“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
“Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose
“Better the storm of truth than the peace of falsehood.”
“Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done”
“Better think while it's still legal.”
“Better thinking out loud than suffocating from frustration. ("The upper lip must never tremble" )”
“Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him. She didn’t understand that he was cursed. And, selfish as he was, he’d rather she hate him than he hate himself any more than he was already going to. Any more than he already did.”
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
Source: Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes
“Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.”
“Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched”
“Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.”
Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series
“Better to accept whatever happens.”
“Better to add to the light than fight the darkness.”
“Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.”
Source: When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction
“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.”
“Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.”
Source: My Battle Against Hitler: Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich
“Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.”
Source: The Lie
“Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.”
“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”
Source: The Eagle
“Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”
Source: Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary
“Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.”
“Better to be a successful failure, than to fail at success.”
Source: Little Luigi: A Musical Adventure
“Better to be a woman alone than a woman beholden to some old man who can't manage a wife his own age.”
Source: King of Scars
“Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"”
“Better to be an active old working dog than one lying around the house waiting to die - Peter Clancy.”
“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.”
“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”
Source: The Circle
“Better to be blinde, then to see ill.”