
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
Misc.
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
“(The Facebook campaign) "is a bit of a feel-good, but it is better than nothing"”
Quoted in the US Wired Magazine (April 2007) http://archive.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/10/myanmarfacebook
Miscellaneous Quotes in the Press (2002-Present)
“Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.”
As quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge, (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48
“It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.”
Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers