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Do you want a better man? Pray for him! Do you want a better woman? Pray for her! — Terraine Francois

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal. — Swami Vivekananda

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd. — E.W. Howe

There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson. — Branch Rickey

I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly. — William Goldman

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s. — Tom Hanks

When you hang a man, you better look at him. — Clint Eastwood

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. — Boris Yeltsin

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. — Paul Auster

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. — Ovid

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all. — Eloisa James

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one. — Raheel Farooq

If a man loves a woman better than the whole universe, how much does he love the whole universe? — Stephen Crane

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it. — Erland Josephson

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy. — Thomas Jefferson

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. — William Shakespeare

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous. — Stuart Weitzman

In all the good Greek of Plato
I lack my roastbeef and potato.

A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle. — John Crowe Ransom

It knew these things the same way a dog knows well the heart of the man it loves and understands it in better ways than the man could ever hope. — Lance Weller

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling. — John Heywood

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man! — Bartholomew Roberts

They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls. — Agatha Christie

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman. — Dixie Waters

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. — Mae West

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. — Thomas Carlyle

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil. — Saint Dominic

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast. — Simonides Of Ceos

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better. — Maxim Gorky

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. — Golda Meir

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart! — Kirstie Alley

A man is no better than he has to be. — John Wayne

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics. — Enid Lyons

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man. — Vaclav Havel

If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds. — Tom Clancy

Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing. — Salman Rushdie

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world. — Zhuangzi

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. — Thomas Henry Huxley

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. — E.W. Howe

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain ... — Edmond Rostand

Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better. — Aristophanes

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream. — Martin Landau

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. — Hesiod

He who rises from his prayer a better man, his prayer has been granted. — Neville Goddard

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. — George MacDonald

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. — Robert Ludlum

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure. — George MacDonald

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! — James Fenimore Cooper

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. — Norman Douglas

He was a great man. But even a better patriot. — Anonymous

Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him. — Elisabeth Elliot

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain. — Corneliu E Giurgea

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man. — Lady Gregory

You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse. — Stephen King

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines. — Dan Dailey

I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it. — Andre Ward

It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better. — Perry Miller

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man. — George Stevens

A strange thing - nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. — Mark Lawrence

Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man. — William Regal

A fool's a man who knows better and does the thing anyway, his father's voice said. — Peter V. Brett

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way. — Donald E. Williams Jr.

How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck — Patrick O'Brian

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours. — Sophia Loren

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford

He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend. — Louisa May Alcott

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. — Idries Shah

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. — Jacob K. Javits

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. — Jean De La Bruyere

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. — James D. Carswell

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

We're giving them hope. That's better than nothing.'
'Spoken like a man who's never had nothing,' I said, and wheeled my horse away. — Leigh Bardugo

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. — Pindar

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man. — Dwyane Wade

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. — Samuel Johnson

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. — Hugh Prather

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones. — George Washington

Even at her worst, she made me want to be a better man. To be good enough for the both of us. — Karina Halle

("intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else - only he had better not be), — Robert A. Heinlein

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils — Joseph Alleine

Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth — Chuck Palahniuk

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being. — James Cash Penney

My future's about trying to be a better man. — Terrence Howard

You make me want to be a better man. — Jack Nicholson

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Suit yourself, but don't pretend you would have done any better. There are only so many options a man has when he's about to lose everything. — J. Keller Ford

Love makes you want to be a better man - right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are. — Gillian Flynn

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — Thomas Fuller

A staff can be no better than the man it serves. — David Halberstam

You're my hope for the future and my call to be a better man and I do hope one day you'll be my wife. — Noelle Adams

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. — John Steinbeck

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt