Best Quotes

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Sleep is the best meditation.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

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.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

The worst men often give the best advice.

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