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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain 
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
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
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
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
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
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.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
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 way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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
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 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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My dream is of a place and a time where America
will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
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
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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