When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain 
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
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
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
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
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 best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 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
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.
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 most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
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 enhance freedom in other lands
is to demonstrate here that our democratic system
is worthy of emulation.
- Jimmy Carter
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
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