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Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

Edward Teller
US (Hungarian-born) physicist (1908 - 2003)

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
US poet (1807 - 1882)

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
US dramatist (1911 - 1983)

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer, The Odyssey
Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer, The Odyssey
Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides, Aegeus
Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi
US (Italian-born) physicist (1901 - 1954)

To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess.

Glenn Holm

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
English lexicographer (1858 - 1933)

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

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