| 100% | PELEG | 5 | Literary captain who says "It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one" |
| 90% | PELEG | 5 | Literary seaman who says, “It’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one” |
| 38% | HABIT | 5 | It's good to break a bad one |
| 37% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain who says, "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing" |
| 35% | MAE | 3 | ___ West, who said "It's better to be looked over than overlooked" |
| 35% | MAE | 3 | West who said "It's better to be looked over than overlooked" |
| 35% | LEAR | 4 | Who said "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" |
| 34% | LEAR | 4 | King who said "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" |
| 33% | RECEIVE | 7 | Saying: it's better to give than to __ |
| 33% | LEAR | 4 | Shakespeare character who says "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" |
| 33% | LEAR | 4 | Stage character who says "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" |
| 33% | ENGEL | 5 | One with a halo to whom you might say "Hallo!" |
| 32% | BERRA | 5 | Yankee Yogi who's credited with saying "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" |
| 32% | LATE | 4 | It's better than never, in a saying |
| 31% | ANGER | 5 | "Inside Out" emotion who says "We should lock the door and scream that curse word we know. It's a good one!" |
| 31% | TOOTH | 5 | It's bad to get a hole in one |
| 31% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword |
| 31% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 31% | LESHAN | 6 | Eda who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 31% | LEO | 3 | One compatible with a Sagittarius, it's said |
| 30% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 30% | NEMO | 4 | Literary captain who says "I am not what you call a civilized man!" |
| 30% | THEDEVILYOUKNOW | 15 | It's better than what's not familiar, in a saying |
| 30% | HOMERSIMPSON | 12 | TV character who says "It's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids" |
| 30% | PINATA | 6 | It requires one who's blind with a bat |
| 30% | THEPRINCE | 9 | Machiavelli treatise with a chapter that considers “whether it is better to be loved than feared” |
| 30% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword, in a proverb |
| 30% | LAW | 3 | It's said to have a long arm, with "the" |
| 30% | LIARS | 5 | Ones needing a good memory, it's said |
| 30% | WINESNOB | 8 | One who gets all snooty when it's time to get a cab? |