“You are much better off with a dog than a dogma.”
“Dogs are better than people.”
“The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.”
“If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas”
“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”
“A living dog's better than a dead lion.”