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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

Else, Principles, Persons

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan

Down, Whole, Three

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Alone, Bad, Company

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

Death, Nothing, Motion

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Positive, Nothing, Negative

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare

Others, Fly, Bear

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton

Good, Perfect, Plan

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

Income, Permanent

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
Ronald Reagan

Nothing, Said, Often

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan

Universe, Far, However

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy, Deserve, Shall

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

Change, Important, Long

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Cannot, Loved, Both

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali

Love, Wish, Else

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Today, Along

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Government, Days

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Rich, Rather, Leave

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Path, Door, Build

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Work, Cannot

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
John F. Kennedy

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed, Blunders

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra

Enough, Eat, Four

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton

Live, Fight, Nothing

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

Time, Try, Cannot

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, Service, Silent

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Nothing, Friend, Heaven

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin

Memories, Debtors, Creditors

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
Hunter S. Thompson

Care, Lord, Hands

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