957 private quotes tagged best

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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”— William Butler Yeats
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“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”— Aristotle
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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”— George Orwell
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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”— Mark Twain
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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”— Edward Abbey
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“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”— Aeschylus
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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”— George Eliot
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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”— John F. Kennedy
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“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.”— Rodney Dangerfield
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”— William Butler Yeats
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“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
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“It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.”— W. Edwards Deming
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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”— Franklin P. Adams
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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”— Heraclitus
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“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.”— Alexander Pope
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“Woman's at best a contradiction still.”— Alexander Pope
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“He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.”— Samuel Butler
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“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
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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”— Anatole France