I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain 
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
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
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
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)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
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
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
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
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
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
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
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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 bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
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
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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
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 predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
A man is relieved and gay when he has
put his heart into his work and done his best;
but what he has said or done otherwise
shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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