Best Quotes

“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”

-- Plato

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”

-- Agatha Christie

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.”

-- John Boehner

“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”

-- George Santayana

“The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.”

-- John Walsh

“Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.”

-- Henry Van Dyke

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

-- Abraham Lincoln

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”

-- Thomas Sowell

“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”

-- John Ruskin