B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”
“Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand.”
Source: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art
“Better to pay more for superior work and be delighted, than less for inferior effort and be disappointed.”
“Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.”
Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…
“Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.”
Source: The Mysterious Island
“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.”
“Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.”
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.”
“Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Better to say nothing at all, rather than something you'll regret.”
“Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?”
Source: Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)
“Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.”
“Better to set up your camp with the devil than with a man whose tongue looses control whenever he's possessed by liquor.”
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
“Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
“better to stare at a wall for 4 hours than to practice something leads you away from reality for 4 hours... it's better to do nothing than to learn things that are False.”
“Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.”
“Better to starve free than be a fat slave”
Source: Animal Fables from Aesop
“Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”
Source: Kindred
“Better to suffer than to die.”
“Better to take consorts,' Locke says. 'Lots and lots of consorts.'
'Spoken like a man about to enter wedlock,' Cardan reminds him.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Better to take sin upon . . . one’s own shoulders . . . than allow harm . . . to befall others. Sometimes a person . . . has an obligation . . . to act in the interest of the . . . greater good.”
Source: The Year of the Witching
“Better to take the train, where I can watch the trees rush by, though so many were in bad shape from pruning and storms, they started to make me sad, Do trees regret their lot? The ones in cities or growing along forgotten margins? Do they dream of dark nights and quiet forests?”
Source: Rules for Visiting
“Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish.”
“Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.”
“Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.”
Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue”
“Better to trust and be betrayed. It had been one of the Survivor's mottos. Better to love and be hurt.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”
“Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.”
Source: Shirley and The Professor
“Better to try and fail than not to try at all”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”
Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.”
“Better to wait actively than passively.”
Source: Back Channel
“Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“Better to wear out than rust out.”
“Better to wear out than to rust out!”
Source: Absent in the Spring
“Better to wonder than to know you're not loved.”
Source: Swept Away
“Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.”
Source: The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome
“Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Better to work towards becoming your greatest version, than be a counterfeit version of someone else.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pubblico piuttosto che scrivere per gli altri e non essere se stessi".”
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”