Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. 9 quotes from Willa Cather

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. 21 more quotes from Jane Austen

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. 23 thoughts from Walt Disney

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. 4 quotes from Evelyn Underhill

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion. 4 more quotes from George C. Marshall

I will give you the best I have. 4 sayings from George C. Marshall

Old friends are best. 2 quotes from John Selden

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. 14 quotes from Heinrich Heine

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part. 4 thoughts from Redd Foxx

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. 21 views from Jane Austen

A majority is always better than the best repartee. 75 sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. 10 more sayings from Og Mandino

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. 58 views from Thomas Carlyle

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. 46 other thoughts from George Santayana

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst. 5 thoughts from Muhammad Ali Jinnah

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. 68 thoughts from Samuel Butler

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. 12 quotes from Rudyard Kipling

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. 12 quotes from George MacDonald

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. 12 other quotes from George MacDonald

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. 21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. 68 more views from Samuel Butler

The best revenge is massive success. 10 quotes from Frank Sinatra

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. 5 thoughts from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. 45 views from Thomas Fuller

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. 15 sayings from Moliere

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. 2 more quotes from David Seabury

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. 30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

Fatigue is the best pillow. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. 5 more sayings from A. A. Milne

Honesty is the best policy. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

I think that making love is the best form of exercise. 3 thoughts from Cary Grant

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. 29 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. 3 quotes from John Webster

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication. 36 thoughts from Lord Byron

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. 3 thoughts from Cary Grant

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. 24 other quotes from Carl Sandburg

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. 30 other quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

No man fails who does his best. 25 more sayings from Orison Swett Marden

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. 29 other sayings from W. Somerset Maugham

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. 10 sayings from Edward Abbey

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. 24 more quotes from W. C. Fields

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. 40 sayings from William James

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. 24 quotes from W. C. Fields

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. 11 thoughts from Douglas MacArthur

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. 67 views from Francis Bacon

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. 25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? 19 sayings from Edgar Allan Poe

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. 3 more quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. 15 more quotes from Moliere

The wildest colts make the best horses. 17 other sayings from Plutarch

The worst men often give the best advice. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. 25 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. 36 other quotes from Lord Byron

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. 45 other thoughts from Thomas Fuller

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. 3 more quotes from Steve Prefontaine

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. 40 thoughts from William James

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. 67 other quotes from Francis Bacon

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. 30 thoughts from Virginia Woolf

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. 14 more wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. 30 wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. 11 more sayings from Meister Eckhart

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is. 2 other quotes from Arnold Rothstein

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. 19 quotes from Elvis Presley

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. 2 thoughts from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. 8 quotes from Tryon Edwards

Those who know the least obey the best. 4 more quotes from George Farquhar

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. 10 quotes from Edward Abbey

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. 47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. 47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. 26 more thoughts from Charles Dickens

Toleration is the best religion. 73 thoughts from Victor Hugo

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. 47 other views from Abraham Lincoln

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. 2 wisdom & wit from Laura Ingalls Wilder

Music is the best means we have of digesting time. 21 more sayings from W. H. Auden

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. 11 quotes from James Joyce

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. 3 thoughts from Linus Pauling

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. 10 quotes from Charles Lamb

The man who has done his best has done everything. 3 other sayings from Charles M. Schwab

A boy's story is the best that is ever told. 26 quotes from Charles Dickens

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. 8 quotes from Charles Darwin

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. 6 more thoughts from Babe Ruth

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. 45 more sayings from John Ruskin

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one. 31 thoughts from Thomas Paine

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? 45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. 47 more wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. 47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. 29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. 26 quotes from Charles Dickens

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. 9 other quotes from John Steinbeck

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. 2 more sayings from George Halas

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. 19 views from Alfred North Whitehead

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one. 31 wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. 32 other thoughts from Michel de Montaigne

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. 26 more thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. 23 sayings from Thomas A. Edison

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. 47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile. 5 quotes from Sacha Guitry

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. 24 quotes from Ayn Rand

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. 7 thoughts from B. F. Skinner

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. 27 more thoughts from James Madison

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. 11 thoughts from Clare Boothe Luce

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. 2 more sayings from Kenneth Grahame

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. 23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. 16 quotes from Michelangelo

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. 27 quotes from James Madison

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. 50 other thoughts from Robert Frost

The best way out is always through. 50 other sayings from Robert Frost

The best way to know God is to love many things. 23 other thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. 4 other thoughts from George Allen, Sr.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. 16 sayings from Michelangelo

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. 25 more quotes from Charles Baudelaire

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. 41 other quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best. 20 quotes from Anatole France

America is the best half-educated country in the world. 4 other views from Nicholas M. Butler

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. 42 sayings from Josh Billings

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. 16 quotes from David Hume

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. 3 thoughts from Edward Everett Hale

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. 81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. 38 other quotes from William Hazlitt

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. 6 quotes from Duke Ellington

But men are men the best sometimes forget. 81 more thoughts from William Shakespeare

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows. 70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. 38 quotes from William Hazlitt

Living well is the best revenge. 12 more thoughts from George Herbert

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. 42 more quotes from Josh Billings

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. 21 more quotes from William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. 21 other quotes from William Wordsworth

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. 41 views from Marcus Aurelius

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. 12 other quotes from Thornton Wilder

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. 42 views from Josh Billings

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 21 quotes from Bette Davis

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. 42 views from Josh Billings

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. 14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. 9 wisdom & wit from Ludwig Wittgenstein

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. 38 views from William Hazlitt

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. 6 other wisdom & wit from Mikhail Bakunin

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. 22 quotes from Robert Browning

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. 24 other quotes from Joseph Addison

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best. 43 thoughts from Alexander Pope

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. 15 other quotes from Christopher Morley

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. 15 quotes from Christopher Morley

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. 30 wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. 26 quotes from Harry S. Truman

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. 30 quotes from Walt Whitman

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. 52 other views from Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. 14 quotes from Audrey Hepburn

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. 4 sayings from Robert Hall

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. 7 quotes from Jerome K. Jerome

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. 46 views from John F. Kennedy

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. 3 other sayings from Anne Baxter

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. 30 other quotes from Walt Whitman

Our best thoughts come from others. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. 33 sayings from Thomas Huxley

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. 33 more sayings from Thomas Huxley

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. 13 more quotes from James M. Barrie

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. 14 sayings from Joseph Joubert

The best road to progress is freedom's road. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. 15 sayings from Orson Welles

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. 14 thoughts from Audrey Hepburn

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. 26 more sayings from Harry S. Truman

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. 10 sayings from Wilson Mizner

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. 13 quotes from James M. Barrie

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. 46 other sayings from John F. Kennedy

Woman's at best a contradiction still. 43 thoughts from Alexander Pope

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. 11 more quotes from Horace Mann

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. 22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you. 3 thoughts from Henry J. Kaiser

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. 10 more wisdom & wit from B. C. Forbes

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. 6 sayings from Benjamin Spock

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. 9 wisdom & wit from Charles Spurgeon

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

I did my best, and God did the rest. 5 wisdom & wit from Hattie McDaniel

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. 53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. 28 sayings from William Butler Yeats

He who keeps his cool best wins. 15 wisdom & wit from Norman Cousins

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day. 3 more quotes from Dean Martin

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. 58 views from Henry Ward Beecher

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. 4 thoughts from Gilda Radner

Mechanization best serves mediocrity. 26 other quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel. 53 other thoughts from Marilyn Monroe

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. 58 other sayings from Henry Ward Beecher

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. 28 quotes from William Butler Yeats

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. 47 more quotes from George Orwell

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. 11 other quotes from David Ogilvy

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. 28 views from William Butler Yeats

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. 59 more views from Elbert Hubbard

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. 45 quotes from Aldous Huxley

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. 8 sayings from William Makepeace Thackeray

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. 5 views from Frida Kahlo

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. 115 more views from George Bernard Shaw

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. 8 thoughts from William Makepeace Thackeray

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. 19 quotes from Carl Jung

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. 35 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 32 views from Henry Ford

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. 117 more views from Henry David Thoreau

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. 8 wisdom & wit from Nathaniel Hawthorne

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. 11 views from William Osler

That government is best which governs least. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. 35 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. 31 wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. 31 more quotes from Eric Hoffer

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. 19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. 8 other sayings from William Makepeace Thackeray

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. 12 other thoughts from Franz Kafka

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. 10 more sayings from Luc de Clapiers

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. 12 more sayings from Malcolm Forbes

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. 10 more thoughts from Max Beerbohm

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. 9 more quotes from Alfred Hitchcock

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. 19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. 22 more quotes from William Feather

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon. 22 other quotes from William Feather

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. 22 quotes from William Feather

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 other thoughts from Andy Warhol

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. 9 other wisdom & wit from Alfred Hitchcock

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. 3 wisdom & wit from Francois Fenelon

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. 18 more views from Andy Warhol

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. 15 sayings from Walter Scott

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. 15 other thoughts from John Locke

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. 24 more views from Lyndon B. Johnson

Land really is the best art. 18 quotes from Andy Warhol

Look your best - who said love is blind? 31 views from Mae West

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 quotes from Andy Warhol

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

The best vision is insight. 12 more quotes from Malcolm Forbes

The best way to hold a man is in your arms. 31 more views from Mae West

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. 50 other quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. 60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. 4 more sayings from Agatha Christie

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. 90 other views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. 63 wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. 21 sayings from Miguel de Cervantes

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. 19 more views from H. G. Wells

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. 90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. 27 other thoughts from Kin Hubbard

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. 21 other sayings from Laurence J. Peter

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. 4 quotes from Agatha Christie

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. 14 thoughts from F. Scott Fitzgerald

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. 90 more sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. 27 other thoughts from Kin Hubbard

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. 21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. 26 views from Theodor Adorno

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. 4 other views from James Truslow Adams

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes. 9 quotes from Hannah Arendt

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. 6 other quotes from Helen Hunt Jackson

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer. 6 more quotes from Helen Hunt Jackson

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy. 6 other wisdom & wit from William Temple

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. 3 other sayings from P. G. Wodehouse

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best. 2 quotes from Juliette Gordon Low

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. 28 views from Napoleon Hill

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. 36 more views from Theodore Roosevelt

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. 5 other quotes from Jim Elliot

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. 30 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. 103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. 100 views from Mahatma Gandhi

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. 36 other thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. 28 other quotes from Napoleon Hill

It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best. 8 other thoughts from W. Edwards Deming

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. 30 other sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. 29 quotes from Groucho Marx

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. 103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. 30 other views from Eleanor Roosevelt

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. 16 more thoughts from Denis Diderot

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. 16 quotes from Paul Valery

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. 28 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. 9 other wisdom & wit from Niels Bohr

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. 74 more quotes from Winston Churchill

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. 39 views from Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. 13 wisdom & wit from Andrew Carnegie

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. 57 views from Will Rogers

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. 7 other wisdom & wit from Mary Astell

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. 2 quotes from James Montgomery

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. 52 other views from George Eliot

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. 78 other quotes from Voltaire

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. 29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. 8 more sayings from Franklin P. Adams

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

I am easily satisfied with the very best. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

If a man does his best, what else is there? 20 other quotes from George S. Patton

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. 2 views from Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. 9 views from Pope John XXIII

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Prosperity is the best protector of principle. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. 74 other views from Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 74 views from Winston Churchill

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. 52 more quotes from George Eliot

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. 19 other views from Jonathan Swift

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. 78 more thoughts from Voltaire

The best is the enemy of the good. 78 other quotes from Voltaire

The best protection any woman can have... is courage. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The best way out of a difficulty is through it. 57 other thoughts from Will Rogers

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. 78 thoughts from Voltaire

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?' 57 other quotes from Will Rogers

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. 52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. 21 wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. 74 more quotes from Winston Churchill

The waste basket is the writer's best friend. 10 other quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. 52 other quotes from George Eliot

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. 11 more quotes from Henry Van Dyke

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

We have the best government that money can buy. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. 52 quotes from George Eliot

You'll live. Only the best get killed. 19 other quotes from Charles de Gaulle

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. 11 views from Henry Van Dyke

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most. 10 other quotes from Billy Sunday

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. 11 sayings from Henry Van Dyke

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. 11 other quotes from Henry Van Dyke

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau. 12 other quotes from Gene Tierney

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. 6 other wisdom & wit from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. 13 thoughts from Andrew Carnegie