“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet
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“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet
“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
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"”
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Quoted in the US Wired Magazine (April 2007) http://archive.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/10/myanmarfacebook <br class="br">Miscellaneous Quotes in the Press (2002-Present)
“Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.”
Anacharsis Scythian philosopher
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.”
Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist