Top 100 Best Of All Quotes
#1. Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.
Frederick Lenz
#2. The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Emil Nolde
#3. I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Jane Green
#4. Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild. When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it. Noah
Fredrik Backman
#5. Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
Zoroaster
#6. I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
Moliere
#7. Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.
Michael Dirda
#8. Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
#9. I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
Joe Shuster
#10. When you feel depressed - have a cigarette or a drink or, best of all, make love, and it will pass.
Leo Tolstoy
#12. Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
Colleen McCullough
#13. It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#15. They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
Matthew Henry
#16. Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.
Ruth Stafford Peale
#17. One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius
#18. This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
Jane Austen
#19. The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.
E. Nesbit
#20. Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.
Elena Ferrante
#21. Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.
Hal Boyle
#22. It was sex, it was fucking, and it was making love. It was life in glorious technicolour, full of promise and joy. The best of all worlds, with the best of all men.
Kitty French
#23. Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.
Robert Bridges
#24. The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
Laozi
#25. We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas
#26. If you want to test someone's character, give him respect. If he has good character, he will respect you more, if he has bad character, he will think is the best of all.
Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#27. There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy
#28. We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
Minor White
#29. Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got.
Helen Steiner Rice
#30. Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.
Darin Strauss
#33. There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#34. When you bring all your doubts and fears to God, you'll find the reason to trust Him. And as you trust Him, you will draw closer to Him. Best of all, no one who draws closer to God can possibly remain unchanged.
Pauline Creeden
#35. Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
Mark Twain
#36. If God created humans with the ability to dictate the direction of history (by imagining future states of the universe and steering its path toward one version or another), then humanity's duty to God was to direct history toward the best of all possible worlds.
Dexter Palmer
#37. The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#40. I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.
Ilka Chase
#41. The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
George D. Prentice
#43. There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.
Louis D. Brandeis
#44. We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.
Alexander Markovich Polyakov
#45. Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle.
#46. In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.
Dick Van Dyke
#47. The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!
Eugene Field
#48. Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill
#49. The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F.H. Bradley
#50. But these threats do not move or alarm me, and for the best of all possible reasons; I do not believe that the gentlemen who make these threats intend to leave their places on this floor - nor, if they should, would the country suffer any loss. The
Cydnor Bailey Tompkins
#51. The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
Isaac
#52. I can tell you this. That in the absence of perfect information, I choose to believe in the version of events that would occur in the best of all possible worlds. What that version of events is: that's your decision. That's up to you. I can't decide that for you; I wouldn't try.
Dexter Palmer
#53. Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.
Michelle Williams
#55. Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#56. I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.
Helen Mirren
#57. Best of all, as happy as Chip Gaines was, he seemed happiest around me.
I'm a generally happy person. My mom says I was a happy baby. But it's a fact--I was always happiest around Jo. And I still am.
Joanna Gaines
#58. A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
Meister Eckhart
#59. The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#60. We can ... start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#61. When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
Allan Sloan
#62. Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.
Betty MacDonald
#63. Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.
Hesketh Pearson
#64. Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.
Anna Akhmatova
#65. In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.
Jean Marzollo
#67. In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people ... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess
Pope Pius VI
#68. It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, "I hate that white boy." Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don't like you, they're not your friends anyway.
Riff Raff
#69. Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
Evan Esar
#70. Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
Neil Postman
#71. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston S. Churchill
#74. He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.
Martin Luther
#75. Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.
Arturo Toscanini
#76. The best of all lost arts is honesty
Mark Twain
#77. Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.
Alexia Casale
#78. Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.
Ray Davies
#79. Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
William Wetmore Story
#80. Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.
Big Sean
#81. Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion ... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.
Richard Clarke Cabot
#82. To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.
Toba Beta
#83. After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.
Joseph William Martin Jr.
#84. Best of all, she waits outside the dressing room while I'm changing. Girlfriends don't do this but wives do, and if there is any better reason to get married than to have someone to hold your hand in a clothing store, I don't know what it is.
Charlie Close
#85. The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
Theodore Roosevelt
#86. What is this world? What is it for? It is art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the Infinite.
N.D. Wilson
#87. This is a love story. But it is also a detective story. And best of all, it is a true story, told here for the first time.
Nancy Carpenter Brown
#88. I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
Christopher Meloni
#89. We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#90. Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
Konrad Von Gesner
#91. If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
G.K. Chesterton
#92. Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John Muir
#93. If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.
Don Hutchison
#94. I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!
Richard Goldschmidt
#95. And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores.
Kristen McNulty
#96. Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.
John Hopkins
#97. Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
#99. I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.
Tommy Lee
#100. Best of all, he gave us a rule of thumb about information in the markets that I later found useful: "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say.
Michael Lewis
