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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead. — T.H. White

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any. — Jean-Paul Sartre

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others — Jung

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

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe. — Paula Heller Garland

I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is. — Alice Moore Hubbard

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene

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

Well, if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better for the job. — Amor Towles

'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29. — Francis Ford Coppola

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. — John Donne

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. — Denis Diderot

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

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

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. — Lucy Stone

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

I understand that I may not be, may never be, the better man, but I also understand that I love you and I will never let you go again. — Mandy Lou Dowson

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. — Elbert Hubbard

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

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce

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

Well," replied the Count, rising from his chair, "if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better suited for the job. — Amor Towles

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. — Dawn Addams

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself — Helmut Schoeck

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life. — Varahamihira

Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting. — Orson Scott Card

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future — Wogu Donald

You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855. — George Osborne

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it. — Homer

I'm a fucking train wreck, baby, I admit it. But ... I want to be better. I want to be the kind of man you need. — Skye Jordan

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self. — Dalai Lama XIV

Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.
Harry: We're the same age, Draco.
Draco: I wear it better. — J.K. Rowling

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken. — Miguel Cabrera

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen ... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing. — Max Schmeling

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
— Wilferd Peterson

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. — Harry S. Truman

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. — Henry David Thoreau

Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong / Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone / So bring it on home and it won't be long / It's gettin' better man! — Noel Gallagher

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. — Nelson Algren

It doesn't matter if being so alive kills a man; it's better to have the quick fever every time. — Ray Bradbury

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man. — The Notorious B.I.G.

Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it.
Give the man a beer. Sometimes hypocrisy is better than faith. — Earl Lee

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. — Mark Twain

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse. — Leo Tolstoy

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters. — William Feather

Man's got the power to break a woman's heart. Women have their own power. Learn this in future, choose better. — Kristen Ashley

You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog. — Jack Ketchum

I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place. — L. Ron Hubbard

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser. — Emmet Fox

If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead. — Bernard Cornwell

The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself — Wayne Wignall

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. — Confucius

("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

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

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

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man. — Bryant H. McGill

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

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

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

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

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. — Charles Dickens

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

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf. — Tom Franklin

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

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

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. — Pliny The Elder

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

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar"
. — William McKinley

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

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

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear. — Neal Shusterman

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

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

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

Cole should have known better. This man had probably tied down his wife and forced the wedding ring on her hand. He — Alessandra Torre

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands. — Ernest Renan

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky. — Henry Ford

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

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than trust in man.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than trust in princes. — King David

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

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 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

I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation. — Karen Marie Moning

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. — Lee Iacocca

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