Best Quotes

“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”

-- Simone Weil

“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”

-- Elvis Presley

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

-- John Wooden

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

-- Homer

“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.”

-- Winston Churchill

“All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.”

-- Tiger Woods

“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”

-- John Wooden

“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”

-- Kurt Vonnegut

“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”

-- Benjamin Franklin

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson