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

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”

-- Joseph Addison

“The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.”

-- Bob Schieffer

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

-- Marcus Aurelius

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

-- Zig Ziglar

“So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.”

-- Patti LaBelle

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”

-- Alfred North Whitehead

“But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.”

-- Homer

“Life is best when you are in love.”

-- Michael Moriarty

“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.”

-- Denis Waitley