I Quotes
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“It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.”
“It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”
“It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!”
“It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
“It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.”
“It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.”
“It is better for someone to dislike you for who you are than to like you for who you are not.”
“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”
Source: Blue Pastures
“It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.”
“It is better for you, for them, and for everyone else, that you should turn an enemy into a trusted friend rather than a corpse. As it is said, 'a rising tide lifts all ships”
“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”
“It is better for you to love than hate.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.”
“It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.”
“It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.”
“It is better for your heart than your head to be your eye.”
“It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.”
Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.”
Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.”
Source: The Power of One
“It is better moving up to your goal and falling than not falling doing nothing”
“It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.”
“It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.”
“It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will have such a pure atmosphere around you - no appreciation, no condemnation, just a pure watchfulness. This watchfulness, I call meditation.”
“It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“It is better not to have any children, for to bring them up well takes great trouble and care, and seeing them grow up badly is the cruellest of all pains”
“It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.”
“It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.”
“It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.”
“It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.”
Source: The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided
“It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.”
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
“It is better, perhaps, to be thought of as a fiction than to be discarded from memory completely.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.”
Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
“It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray”
“It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.”
“It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.”
“It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.”
“It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.”
“It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.”
Source: The Red Baron
“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”
“It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.”
“It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.”
“It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“It is better that we look, in mutual want, and let the rest go by.”
“It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!”
Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some