The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
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
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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 way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
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
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
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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 gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sleep is the best meditation.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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