Better

Popper held, that even if a theory t2 with a higher content than a rival theory t1 is subsequently falsified, it can still legitimately be regarded as a better theory than t1, and ˜better™ is here now understood to mean t2 is closer to the truth than t1. ❋ Thornton, Stephen (2009)

We would do better to say: _more_ is often _better_ , but _most_ is rarely _best_ , especially if we fail to measure everything together, tangible and intangible alike. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the contemporary "political poetry" I've read remain mired in authorial biography (granted, it could be a function of my reading habit) -- they were writ primarily to make the authors feel better (by *feel better*, it includes ranting against abuse). ❋ Unknown (2007)

People are better than their creeds, and, it should seem, sometimes _better_ than _their_ principles. ❋ Various (N/A)

Were they, after all, with all their muddy color and uncertain composition, better -- actually _better_, in the fundamentals that count, than those two glorified forms that ruled the room? ❋ Margaret Horton Potter (N/A)

Bright knew his Englishmen better than Lowell did, —better than England did. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The idealists planned and strove and shouted that their city should become a better, better, and better city—and what they meant, when they used the word “better, ” was “more prosperous, ” and the core of their idealism was this: “The more prosperous my beloved city, the more prosperous beloved I! ❋ Unknown (1918)

First, _Know what you want to say_; second, _Say it_; third, _Use your own language_; fourth, _Leave out all the fine passages_; fifth, _A short word is better than a long one_; sixth, _The fewer words, other things being equal, the better_; finally, _Cut it to pieces_. ❋ Various (1904)

"You were Peter Grimm," she said, "before you knew better" -- that's what _they_ call leaving _this_ world -- "_to know better_." ❋ David Belasco (1892)

Some people are too late for everything but ruin; when a nobleman apologized to George III. for being late, and said, "better late than never," the king replied, "No, I say, _better never than late_." ❋ Orison Swett Marden (1887)

Yet she knew, better than he did, —better than she liked to tell him, —that it was not the thing for her to live there alone. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

“We always suppose that which is better to take place in nature, if it be possible,” says Aristotle; and the vaguest and most heterogeneous qualities being confounded together under the notion of being _better_, there was no limit to the wildness of the inferences. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

I said to myself, adversity and constraint are more favorable to wisdom, than liberty and prosperity; or to express it in better words -- "_sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better_;" and for this maxim of wisdom we are indebted to a Jew. ❋ Benjamin Waterhouse (1800)

_Learning_, the better _Philosophers_, and the greater _Abilities_ they possess, the _more_, and the _better_ are they _qualified_, to ❋ John Evelyn (1663)

The primary objective is not politics, it's not waiting for the Rapture, it's not organizing better politically, but rather organizing * better* ways to spread the Gospel Message. ❋ Unknown (2009)

 it makes me feel better, necessarily, but that it makes me feel better  about you. ❋ Michaud, S G & Aynesworth H (1989)

"I congratulate you, Mr Leather, on getting a _better_ situation (if it really should turn out to be better), and I sincerely hope it may -- for your mother's sake as well as your own. ❋ Unknown (1859)

IV. i.1 (427,1) Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd] The meaning is, _'Tis better_ to be _thus contemned, and_ known _to yourself_ to be contemned. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

"There's a really worrying hierarchy in the newspapers: that to be the wife is better than to be the girlfriend, and to be the wife of the more successful footballer is ­better than to be the wife of the less successful footballer. ❋ Kira Cochrane (2010)

I'm [Better] ❋ KA (2003)

that [lad] [over there] is a better [wanker]! ❋ Knobby Knob Knob (2005)

Dave: [Google] is better. [Sally]: [Yahoo] is betterer. ❋ CakeEater1Million (2008)

Gail: Hey Scott, [Corby] is ace! Scott: No Gail, [I think you'll find] that Corby is even [betterer]! ❋ Dunney Boy (2016)

[Damit] Skyler, how do you [botch] an simple introductory email? Be [BETTERER]! ❋ King Of The Moment (2018)

[Simple] acts to make [the world] a betterful [place]. ❋ "See You In Another Life" (2010)

Me: “My girlfriend keeps [choosing] the outfits that I wear to work, and she also [combs] [my hair] every morning.” Friend: “Yeah, she’s bettering you...” ❋ SaucyBdog (2019)

Hym "Oh, I'm not much of an [orator] but you know what they say about orators: 'As long as they are poor the state and the people can only praise their [uprightness]; but once they are fattened on the public's funds, the conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people, and attack the democracy' ~ [Aristophanes]. Not that I'm the biggest fan of democracy... But I am an archetypal figure and multiple people have been intimated into the culture in their peripheral association to me. And, as a diagnostician, I'm like 2 for 2 over here. So, I wouldn't say 'better' but I'm sure I would do a pretty good job." 🤷 ❋ Hym Iam (2022)

for the [BETTERMENT] of [the team] , we stayed after doing [laps] ❋ Aye Roll (2010)

[I am] [on the better]. ❋ Dwitte (2017)