957 private quotes tagged best

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jackie Kennedy

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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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“Woman's at best a contradiction still.” — Alexander Pope

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“The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson

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“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.” — Ronald Reagan

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“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“The best road to progress is freedom's road.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” — Francis Bacon

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“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” — George Eliot

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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” — George Eliot

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“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” — Carl Sandburg

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“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.” — Alexander Pope

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“The wildest colts make the best horses.” — Plutarch

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“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.” — William Butler Yeats

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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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“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?” — Jackie Kennedy

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“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.” — Alexander Pope

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“The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.” — Napoleon Hill

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“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

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“The best way to know God is to love many things.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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