Best Quotes

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

-- Margaret Mitchell

“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”

-- Lao Tzu

“The best of seers is he who guesses well.”

-- Euripides

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

-- Theodore Roosevelt

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

-- Winston Churchill

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”

-- Russell Baker

“Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.”

-- James A. Garfield

“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”

-- Eddie Vedder

“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

“The wildest colts make the best horses.”

-- Plutarch