957 private quotes tagged best

“Experience hath shewn, 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

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

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“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.” — Ronald Reagan

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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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“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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“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” — Henry Ford

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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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“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” — Denis Waitley

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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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“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.” — Samuel Adams

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“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.” — Marilyn Monroe

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