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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
10 other quotes from Heraclitus
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
9 more quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
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 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
70 other sayings 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 quotes 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 more thoughts 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 other thoughts from William Shakespeare
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
6 wisdom & wit from Duke Ellington
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
81 quotes 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 more thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
70 quotes 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 more quotes from William Hazlitt
Living well is the best revenge.
12 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 thoughts from Josh Billings
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
21 other views from William Wordsworth
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
41 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
12 other wisdom & wit from Thornton Wilder
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
42 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Bette Davis
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
42 other sayings from Josh Billings
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin
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 sayings from Mikhail Bakunin
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
22 other wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
24 other sayings from Joseph Addison
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
43 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 more views 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 thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 more quotes from Walt Whitman
Our best thoughts come from others.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
43 thoughts from Alexander Pope
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
135 quotes 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 sayings from Thomas Huxley
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
13 more thoughts from James M. Barrie
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
14 more 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 quotes from Orson Welles
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
14 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Harry S. Truman
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
10 other views from Wilson Mizner
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
13 views 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 more quotes 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 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
11 other quotes from Horace Mann
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
22 other sayings from Robert Browning
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
3 views 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 other quotes from B. C. Forbes
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
6 quotes from Benjamin Spock
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
9 other quotes 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 sayings from Helen Keller
I did my best, and God did the rest.
5 more quotes from Hattie McDaniel
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
53 other quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
28 more quotes from William Butler Yeats
He who keeps his cool best wins.
15 views 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 views from Dean Martin
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
58 quotes 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 quotes from Gilda Radner
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
26 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 quotes 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 more 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 more quotes from Helen Keller
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
47 other thoughts from George Orwell
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
11 sayings from David Ogilvy
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
28 quotes from William Butler Yeats
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
45 sayings 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 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
5 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
19 sayings 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 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
32 thoughts 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 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
8 other sayings from Nathaniel Hawthorne
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
11 quotes from William Osler
That government is best which governs least.
117 wisdom & wit 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 views from Eric Hoffer
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
35 thoughts 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 other quotes from Eric Hoffer
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
117 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from William Makepeace Thackeray
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
12 quotes from Franz Kafka
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
10 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
12 other quotes from Malcolm Forbes
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
10 quotes from Max Beerbohm
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
9 quotes from Alfred Hitchcock
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
19 other quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
22 sayings 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 more views 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 more 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 sayings from Andy Warhol
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
9 views from Alfred Hitchcock
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
3 views from Francois Fenelon
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
18 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Walter Scott
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
15 more quotes from John Locke
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson
Land really is the best art.
18 thoughts from Andy Warhol
Look your best - who said love is blind?
31 more views from Mae West
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
18 more wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
50 other sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
The best vision is insight.
12 quotes from Malcolm Forbes
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
31 other quotes from Mae West
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
50 views 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 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Agatha Christie
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
90 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 other views 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 quotes from H. G. Wells
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
21 thoughts from Laurence J. Peter
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
4 views 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 more 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 wisdom & wit 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 more 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 thoughts from Theodor Adorno
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
9 quotes from Niels Bohr
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 quotes 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 more thoughts 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 quotes from Helen Hunt Jackson
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
6 wisdom & wit from William Temple
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
3 thoughts from P. G. Wodehouse
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
2 sayings from Juliette Gordon Low
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
28 more 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 more sayings from Jim Elliot
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
103 thoughts 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 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
100 more views from Oscar Wilde
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
103 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 more quotes 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 more sayings from Theodore Roosevelt
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
28 thoughts from Napoleon Hill
It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
8 views 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 sayings from Oscar Wilde
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
30 quotes 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
30 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 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
16 views 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 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
16 other sayings from Paul Valery
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
103 other views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
74 more thoughts from Winston Churchill
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
13 more wisdom & wit from Andrew Carnegie
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
57 other sayings from Will Rogers
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
7 other quotes from Mary Astell
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
2 more views 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 more quotes from George Eliot
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
78 sayings 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 views from Franklin P. Adams
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
74 other views from Winston Churchill
If a man does his best, what else is there?
20 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 more sayings 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 views from Winston Churchill
It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
9 quotes 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 thoughts from Voltaire
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
74 sayings 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 other quotes from George Eliot
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
19 more wisdom & wit from Jonathan Swift
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
78 quotes from Voltaire
The best is the enemy of the good.
78 other thoughts from Voltaire
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
9 other quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
78 quotes from Voltaire
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
98 sayings 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 sayings from Will Rogers
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
52 views from George Eliot
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
21 quotes from Dale Carnegie
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
74 sayings from Winston Churchill
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
10 views 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 more thoughts 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 views from Robert Louis Stevenson
We have the best government that money can buy.
98 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 other quotes from George Eliot
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
19 views from Charles de Gaulle
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
11 quotes from Henry Van Dyke
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
10 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 views from Henry Van Dyke
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
11 wisdom & wit from Henry Van Dyke
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
12 more sayings 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 quotes 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
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
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
9 views from Willa Cather
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
21 other 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 other views 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 thoughts from Evelyn Underhill
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
4 wisdom & wit from George C. Marshall
I will give you the best I have.
4 more quotes 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 thoughts from Heinrich Heine
A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.
4 more wisdom & wit from Redd Foxx
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
21 sayings from Jane Austen
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
10 quotes 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 sayings 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 thoughts from George Santayana
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
5 other 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 more quotes from Samuel Butler
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
12 more quotes from Rudyard Kipling
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
75 thoughts 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 other 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 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 thoughts from Samuel Butler
The best revenge is massive success.
10 more wisdom & wit from Frank Sinatra
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
45 quotes 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 views 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
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
67 other views from Francis Bacon
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
13 other quotes from Chanakya
Education is the best provision for old age.
75 more quotes from Aristotle
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
2 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from A. A. Milne
Honesty is the best policy.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
96 other thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
I think that making love is the best form of exercise.
3 more quotes from Cary Grant
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
75 more quotes from Aristotle
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
3 other views from John Webster
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
36 more quotes from Lord Byron
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
75 quotes from Aristotle
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 wisdom & wit from Cary Grant
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
24 quotes from Carl Sandburg
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
30 other thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton
No man fails who does his best.
25 wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
29 thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
10 wisdom & wit from Edward Abbey
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
24 other thoughts from W. C. Fields
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
40 quotes from William James
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
24 more quotes from W. C. Fields
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
75 thoughts from Aristotle
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
11 other wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
67 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Edgar Allan Poe
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
75 thoughts from Aristotle
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
3 wisdom & wit from Paramahansa Yogananda
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
15 more views from Moliere
The wildest colts make the best horses.
17 more quotes from Plutarch
The worst men often give the best advice.
67 quotes 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 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
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
75 views from Aristotle
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
3 quotes from Steve Prefontaine
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
40 sayings 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 more wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
14 more quotes from William Arthur Ward
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
7 quotes from Homer
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
11 sayings from Meister Eckhart
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
7 more wisdom & wit from Homer
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 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 views from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
8 views from Tryon Edwards
Those who know the least obey the best.
4 more sayings from George Farquhar
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
10 other quotes from Edward Abbey
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
24 wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand
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 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
26 quotes from Charles Dickens
Toleration is the best religion.
73 quotes 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 more 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 more wisdom & wit from Laura Ingalls Wilder
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
21 thoughts from W. H. Auden
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
11 other sayings from James Joyce
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
3 quotes 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 more quotes from Charles Lamb
The man who has done his best has done everything.
3 views from Charles M. Schwab
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
26 other views 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 views from Babe Ruth
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
47 more 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 quotes from John Ruskin
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
31 more 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 views 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 other sayings 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 views from Arthur Schopenhauer
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
26 views 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 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 sayings from John Steinbeck
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
2 other sayings from George Halas
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
19 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Thomas Paine
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
32 thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
26 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
23 more quotes from Thomas A. Edison
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
47 wisdom & wit 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
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 quotes 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 quotes from James Madison
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
11 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Kenneth Grahame
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
23 other thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
16 views from Michelangelo
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
9 views 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 other thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Robert Frost
The best way to know God is to love many things.
23 wisdom & wit from Vincent Van Gogh
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
4 quotes from George Allen, Sr.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
16 more wisdom & wit from Michelangelo