Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim Rohn

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
Newt Gingrich

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Chanakya

God created man, but I could do better.
Erma Bombeck

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Erma Bombeck

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Erma Bombeck

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will Rogers

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
Richard Branson

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
Princess Diana

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine