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

Better knot straws than do nothing. Gael. Pr. 30

Better lose a jest than a friend. Pr.

Better mad with all the world than wise all alone. Fr. Pr.

Better my freen's think me fremit as fasheous, i.e., strange rather than troublesome. Sc. Pr.

Better never begin than never make an end. Pr.

Better not be at all / Than not be noble. 35 Tennyson.

Better not read books in which you make the acquaintance of the devil. Niebuhr.

Better one-eyed than stone-blind. Pr.

Better one living word than a hundred dead ones. Ger. Pr.

Better rue sit than rue flit, i.e., regret remaining than regret removing. Sc. Pr.