Quotes About Better

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.

No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.

Your guess is as good as mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.

We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn't it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?

But the more intelligence you had beforehand, the better the eventual fight would go.

Small female children. They're devious, but they're prettier than sons, and they smell better. (The Spirit of the Prophecy to Garion)

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else. and Who cares? and It's all bullshit anyway.

Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men. (Something About a Soldier (1940))

I do desire we may be better strangers.

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.

How shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty?

My desolation does begin to make a better life.

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

But rather reason thus with reason fetter: Love sough is good but given unsought is better.

I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them.

By heaven, I love thee better than myself, For I come hither arm'd against myself.

Why, I think, as you say, to wit, that they are bad times, and bad they will be, until men are better; for they are bad men that make bad times; if men, therefore, would mend, so would the times. It is a folly to look for good days so long as sin is so high, and those that study its nourishment so many

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.