All Quotes

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
‐‐ Pierre Jean de Beranger

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
‐‐ Mark Twain

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
‐‐ Democritus

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
‐‐ Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
‐‐ Chanakya

It is better to die well than to live badly.
‐‐ Jan Hus

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

It is better to do too much than to do too little.
‐‐ Bas Rutten

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
‐‐ Randall Jarrell

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
‐‐ Alvin Toffler

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
‐‐ Peter Marshall

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
‐‐ Herman Melville

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.
‐‐ Philip Gibbs

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
‐‐ Jack Bowman

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
‐‐ Fridtjof Nansen

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
‐‐ James Thurber

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
‐‐ Mark Twain

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
‐‐ Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
‐‐ Josh Billings

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
‐‐ James Thurber

It is better to laugh than cry.
‐‐ Maria Grazia Cucinotta

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

It is better to learn late than never.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to live rich than to die rich.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

It is better to look good than to feel good.
‐‐ Fernando Lamas

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
‐‐ John Cage

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
‐‐ George Washington

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
‐‐ Jim Carrey