1629 Proverbs about Better / Page 8
141. Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
142. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
143. Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.
144. Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
145. It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.
146. Learning is better than house and land.
147. Nature is better than a middling doctor.
148. Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a brocade.
149. Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.
150. "I heard" is good; "I saw" is better.
151. A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
152. A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
153. A man thinks that he knows it, but his wife knows better.
154. All gardeners know better than other gardeners.
155. Better a live beggar than a dead king.
156. Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
157. Better the cold blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant.
158. Better to be a dog in peacetime that a man in wartime.
159. Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.
160. If you are going to have a roast, a chicken is better than a phoenix.
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