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QUOTES including the word: "best"

Thales:
  • The best democracy has neither too rich nor too poor citizens.

    • Kipling:
  • I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

    • Primo Levi:
  • The aims of life are the best defense against death.

    • Paul Valery:
  • The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

    • Epictetus:
  • Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

    • Hypatia:
  • Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

    • Moliere:
  • A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

    • Schiller:
  • He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

    • Gandhi:
  • The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

    • Mozart:
  • When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

    • Frank Sinatra:
  • The best revenge is massive success.

    • Rimbaud:
  • Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

    • Petrarca:
  • It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

    • Samuel Johnson:
  • I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.

    • William Thackeray:
  • To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

    • Iannis Xenakis:
  • "Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."

    • Hemingway:
  • The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

    • Diderot:
  • The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

    • Cervantes:
  • Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

    • William Thackeray:
  • Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

    • Rosa Luxemburg:
  • History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

    • Eino Leino:
  • He who a single one loves is blessed – beloved of everybody. Whoever self-interest forgets the best will blessèd dreams embody.

    • Homer:
  • Always be first and best and never embarrass your ancestors.

    • Pericles:
  • Time is the best counselor.

    • Valery Paul:
  • The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

    • Gabriel Marquez:
  • Don't struggle so much, best things happen when not expected.”

    • Maria Kallas:
  • Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

    • Frank Sinatra:
  • I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day.

    • Frida Kahlo:
  • I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

    • Sophocles:
  • Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

    • John Milton:
  • Solitude sometimes is best society.

    • Skinner:
  • A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

    • Du Fu:
  • Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can.

    • Hesiod:
  • It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

    • A. Edgar Poe,:
  • The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

    • Isokratis:
  • Consider sufficient what you have in the present, but don't stop to look for the best.

    • Solon:
  • The best city is where those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

    • Valery Paul:
  • The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

    • Cicero:
  • The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

    • Dickens:
  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

    • Skinner:
  • A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

    • Demosthenes:
  • The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

    • Galeano:
  • Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • Being a good example is the best form of service.

    • Aristotles:
  • The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

    • Plinius Gaius:
  • Simple diet is best.

    • Jules Verne:
  • Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

    • Pindar:
  • Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

    • John Locke:
  • I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

    • Epicurus:
  • Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

    • Hippocrates:
  • The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
    Walking is the best medicine.

    • Walt Whitman:
  • “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”

    • Hawthorne:
  • Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

    • Walt Disney:
  • You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

    • Darwin:
  • A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

    • Walt Disney:
  • You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

    • Carl Rogers:
  • As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give

    • Michelangelo:
  • The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

    • Aeschylus:
  • It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

    • Aristotles:
  • Man, when perfected, is the best of animals.  When separated from law and justice, is the worst of all.

    • Carl Jung:
  • Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • Politics is the art of the next best.

    • Nietzsche:
  • He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

    • Goethe:
  • The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

    • Heraclitus:
  • The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

    • Buddha:
  • The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

    • Benjamin Franklin:
  • He that can have patience can have what he will.-“Honesty is the best policy.

    • William James:
  • Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

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