The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. – Josh Billings
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only a mediocre person is always at his best. – W. Somerset Maugham
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. – Deepak Chopra
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. – Charles Kingsley
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. – Joseph Smith, Jr.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. – Orison Swett Marden
No man fails who does his best. – Orison Swett Marden
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. – Orison Swett Marden
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. – Alexander Pope
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. – Thomas Sowell
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. – Edward Abbey
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. – Benjamin Disraeli
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. – Charles Dickens
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. – Fred Rogers
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? – Bette Davis
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. – Rose Kennedy
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best. – Alexander Pope
