Short quotations about, better - Page 4

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be, but w…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend. Great short quote and quotation by: Kurt Vonnegut , US novelist (1922 – )

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R. J. Baughan

We find greatest joy, not in gettin…

15 Feb , 2011  

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good […]

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We have all a better guide in ourse…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 4 scene 2

We have seen better days….

15 Feb , 2011  

We have seen better days. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens”, Act 4 scene 2 , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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We rarely confide in those who are …

15 Feb , 2011  

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Camus , French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)

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Dora Russell

We want far better reasons for havi…

15 Feb , 2011  

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Great short quote and quotation by: Dora Russell ,

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R. D. Hitchcock

Wealth is not of necessity a curse,…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only […]

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Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said….

15 Feb , 2011  

Well done is better than well said. Great short quote and quotation by: Ben Franklin ,

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Well done is better than well said….

15 Feb , 2011  

Well done is better than well said. Great short quote and quotation by: Benjamin Franklin , US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

Wendell Phillips

What is defeat? Nothing but educati…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. Great short quote and quotation by: Wendell Phillips , US abolitionist (1811 – 1884)

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Whatever is in any way beautiful ha…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. Great short quote and quotation by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations , Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD – 180 […]

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Sacha Guitry

When a man steals your wife, there …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Great short quote and quotation by: Sacha Guitry , (1885 – 1957)

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