The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain 
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy
Be not like the sugarcane -
do not hold your sweetness inside.
Be like the fruit tree -
be generous with your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie (inspired by Tagore)
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to get a bad law repealed
is to enforce it strictly.
- Abraham Lincoln
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am 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.
- Marilyn Monroe
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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