“There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.”
Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 296
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
Playboy interview (2003)
Context: I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.
“I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
On Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh; as quoted in "The Village Smithyː Bobby Bragan Gets Good Seat To See 'My Boys' In Series; Yogi 'Better Looking' Than Danny" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pMAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kU4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2519%2C1822388 by Chester L. Smith, in The Pittsburgh Press (Wednesday, October 5, 1960), p. 53
Carl Andre (1935) American artist
As quoted in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 206
quote after 1959, in Andre's early artistic career, when he made his sculpture 'Last Ladder'
“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
E 19
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Investigations have failed to confirm this in Emerson's writings (John H. Lienhard. "A better moustrap" http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1163.htm, Engines of our Ingenuity). Also reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 25. Note that Emerson did say, as noted above, "I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods". <br class="br">Misattributed
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531
Sunni Hadith