“Better than a sharp stick in the eye.”
“it's better than a stick in the eye”
“It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.”
“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.”
“Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.”
“A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes”