Best Quotes
“Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.”
“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.”
-- David Bowie
“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“I have found 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
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
-- Walt Whitman
“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”
-- Francis Bacon
“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.”
-- George S. Patton