Better to weep with the wise than laugh with the fool.

Better to regret your silence once than your words many times.

Better to ask many times than to get lost once.

Better to be happy than wise.

Better to go to heaven in rags than hell in finery.

Better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Better to die a beggar than to live a beggar.

Better to bend than to break.

Better to suffer a great evil than to do a small one.

Better to live in honour than to die in shame.

Better to be embarrassed than to be ashamed.

Better to be dislike for what you are than liked for what you are not.

Better to sleep without supper than to rise in debt.

Better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep.

Better to cut the shoe than to pinch the toe.

Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Better to arrive late than not at all.

Better to sleep in a wooden bed than to lie in a golden coffin.

Better to be alone than in bad company.

Better to turn back than to go wrong.

Better to love less than to love longer.

Better to keep then Devil at the door than to turn him out of the house.

Better to give than to receive.

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Better to take caution at first than to have tears later.

Better to be good than pious.

Better to have an ugly truth than a beautiful lie.

Better to have one hundred enemies outside the house than one inside.