1629 Proverbs about Better / Page 8
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Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.142.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.143.
Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.144.
Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.145.
It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.146.
Learning is better than house and land.147.
Nature is better than a middling doctor.148.
Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a brocade.149.
Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.150.
"I heard" is good; "I saw" is better.151.
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.152.
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.153.
A man thinks that he knows it, but his wife knows better.154.
All gardeners know better than other gardeners.155.
Better a live beggar than a dead king.156.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.157.
Better the cold blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant.158.
Better to be a dog in peacetime that a man in wartime.159.
Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.160.
If you are going to have a roast, a chicken is better than a phoenix.Quotes related to Better by Power Quotations