The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain 
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
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)
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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.
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
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
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 way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
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
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
My dream is of a place and a time where America
will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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