The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain 
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
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
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
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
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
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
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
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
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
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
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
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 best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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
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
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.
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 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
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
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
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I can not believe that war
is the best solution.
No one won the last war,
and no one will win the next war.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
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
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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