“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician
clap clap, hurricane of clapping.
Source: blog, 12 April 2009
“Tranquillity! thou better name
Than all the family of Fame.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Ode to Tranquillity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet
Jack Ma (1964) Chinese businessman
Responding to the accusation that Alibaba sells fake merchandise. "Jack Ma Says Fakes 'Better Quality and Better Price Than the Real Names'” http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/06/15/jack-ma-says-fakes-better-quality-and-better-price-than-the-real-names/, CHINA REAL TIME REPORT, The Wall Street Journal (June 15, 2016)
Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“It is better to will the good than to know the truth.”
Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet
As quoted in The Renaissance : Essays in Interpretation (1982) by André Chastel , p 107
“A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.”
John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977) English Mathematician
"Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany", p. 24.
Littlewood's Miscellany (1986)