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

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides on best

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin on best

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon on best

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather on best

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth Grahame on best

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats on best

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
Harvey Fierstein on best

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison on best

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick on best

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
Gore Vidal on best

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur on best

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
Anne M. Mulcahy on best

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
Shania Twain on best

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
Marlee Matlin on best

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley on best

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Bill Watterson on best

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides on best

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Charles Stanley on best

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett on best