Best Quotes

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

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

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.