Best Quotes

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Actress Mary Anderson: “Mr. Hitchcock, what do you think is my best side?” – “My dear, you’re sitting on it.”

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the […]

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best.

Do what you know best; if you’re a runner, run, if you’re a bell, ring.

It would be undoubtedly best, if we could see and hear everything as it is, that nothing may be too anxiously dreaded, or too ardently pursued.

I cannot choose the best. The best chooses me.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (Boswell quoting a friend of Samuel Johnson, Joseph Baretti)

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.