Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next 5 place, to be quickly reconciled. Johnson.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. Arist.

It is best to take half in hand and the rest by and by. Pr.

It is best to take with thankfulness and admiration from each man what he has to give. John Morley.

It is better and kinder to flog a man to his work than to leave him idle till he robs and flog him afterwards. Ruskin.

It is better for a young man to blush than to 10 turn pale. Cato.

It is better for the man whom God helps than for him who rises early. Cervantes.

It is better living on a little than outliving a great deal. (?)

It is better not to live at all than to live dishonoured. Sophocles.

It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up according to God's original pattern, than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern. J. G. Holland.