Improve
Improve means to make something better. It is also used in the names of:
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Famous quotes containing the word improve:
“every day they die
Among us, those who were doing us some good,
And knew it was never enough but
Hoped to improve a little by living.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Make em cry. Make em laugh. Make em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and theyll love it and come back for more. But for heavens sake, dont try to improve their minds.”
—Robert Rossen (19081966)
“The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in the infringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)