(attributed: on illness of the Prince of Wales)
Across the wires the electric message came: ‘He is not better, he is much the same'.
Bairnsfather Bruce 1888-1959
Fragments from France
Well, if you knows of a better ‘ole, go to it.
Beecher Henry Ward 1813-1887
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
The Bible(Authorized Version)
Old Testament:Proverbs ch.16 v.32
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;and he
that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
„The Chiltern's"
And I shall find some girl perhaps,
And a better one than you,
With eyes as wise, but kindlier,
And lips as soft, but true.
And I dare say she will do.
Camus Albert 1913-1960
The Fall
We seldom confide in those who are better than ourselves.
Chaucer Geoffrey c.1343-1400
Tale of Melibee
What is better than wisedoom? Womman. And what is better than a good womman? Nothyng.
Dylan Bob 1941-
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
Eliot T.S. 1888-1965
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
(attributed)
If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, tho' he build his house in the woods, the
world will make a beaten path to his door.
Fuller Thomas 1608-1661
Good is not good, where better is expected.
Hubbard Kin 1868-1930
The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.
Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946
The End of Laissez-Faire
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘Gunga Din'
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
La Bruyere Jean de 1645-1696
Les Caractères, ‘Des femmes'
Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Essays of Elia ‘Mrs Battle's Opinions on Whist'
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get
the better in something or other.
LIEBLING A.J. 1904-1963
I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can
write faster than anyone who can write better.
Marvell Andrew 1621-1678
‘The Statue in Stocks-Market' (of Charles II)
For though the whole world cannot show such another;
Yet we'd better by far have him than his brother.
Masefield John 1878-1967
Laugh and Be Merry
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song.
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Meir Golda 1898-1978
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I
can say they are certainly no worse.
Meredith George 1828-1909
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
To reign is worth ambition though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Moliére 1622-1673
The Misanthrope
Of all human follies there's none could be greater
Than trying to render our fellow-men better.
Mottoes and Slogans
(advertising slogan)
Things go better with Coke.
Newman Paul 1925
in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"He'll feel a lot better once we've robbed a couple of banks."
Ovid 43 BC-AD c.17
Metamorphoses
I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse.
Proverbs and Sayings
Medieval
It is better to be than not to be.
Saki (Hector Hugh Monro) 1870-1916
Toys of Peace and Other Papers
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Saroyan William 1908-1981
Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as some one else.
Schiller Friedrich von 1759-1805
I am better than my reputation.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Measure for Measure
They say best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Sonnet 144
Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman, coloured ill.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
In Memoriam
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Thatcher Margaret 1925-
Women are much better at saying no than men.
Thomas Lewis
Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.
West Mae 1892-1980
(attributed)
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.