| 100% | PELEG | 5 | Literary seaman who says, “It’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one” |
| 100% | PELEG | 5 | Literary captain who says "It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one" |
| 39% | HABIT | 5 | It's good to break a bad one |
| 36% | MAE | 3 | ___ West, who said "It's better to be looked over than overlooked" |
| 36% | MAE | 3 | West who said "It's better to be looked over than overlooked" |
| 36% | LEAR | 4 | Who said "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" |
| 35% | LEAR | 4 | King who said "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" |
| 35% | 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" |
| 34% | RECEIVE | 7 | Saying: it's better to give than to __ |
| 34% | LEAR | 4 | Shakespeare character who says "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" |
| 33% | LATE | 4 | It's better than never, in a saying |
| 32% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword |
| 32% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 32% | 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 |
| 31% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 31% | THEDEVILYOUKNOW | 15 | It's better than what's not familiar, in a saying |
| 31% | HOMERSIMPSON | 12 | TV character who says "It's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids" |
| 31% | PINATA | 6 | It requires one who's blind with a bat |
| 31% | THEPRINCE | 9 | Machiavelli treatise with a chapter that considers “whether it is better to be loved than feared” |
| 31% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword, in a proverb |
| 31% | LIARS | 5 | Ones needing a good memory, it's said |
| 30% | SUMMONS | 7 | It's usually bad to be served with one |
| 30% | SURPRISE | 8 | To strike with a sudden feeling, usually good |
| 30% | EGO | 3 | One's head can be swollen with it, so to say |
| 30% | HONORS | 6 | It's good to graduate with them |
| 30% | RENAME | 6 | It's said to be bad luck if you do this to a boat |
| 29% | HEH | 3 | The laugh of someone who's up to no good |
| 29% | NEVER | 5 | When it's a good idea to argue with strangers on the internet |
| 29% | IAN | 3 | McKellen who once said, “Some fan attention is odd, but no odder than a cereal box with me as Magneto on it” |