A Quote by Pliny the Elder

Better do nothing than do ill.

Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder
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23 - 79

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

George Herbert

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

George Herbert

A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.

Preston Sturges

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

Martial

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #? agriculture

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.

Primo Levi

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

Carrie Fisher

It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

Norm MacDonald

Better untaught than ill-taught.

Grenville Kleiser

The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

Walt Whitman

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Walter Raleigh

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Glenda Jackson

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

Susanna Centlivre

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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