Best quotes

Adams Franklin P. 1881-1960

Health is the thing that makes you feel
that now is the best time of the year.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

„Rabbi Ben Ezra"

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.

Burns Robert 1759-1796

„Man was made to Mourn"

O Death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!

Byron Lord 1788-1824

„She Walks in Beauty"

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

It is no use saying „we are doing our best". You have  got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834

‚,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small.

Cunningham James Vincent 1911-1985

Epigrams

I married in my youth a wife.
She was my own, my very first.
She gave the best years of her life.
I hope nobody gets the worst.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Fadiman Clifton

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Itamini Juzo

If you imagine life as a book, the last page should be the best, not the blackest.

Lydgate John c. 1370-c. 1451

The Fall of Princes

Sithe he off Inglissh in makyng was the beste,
Preie onto Gog to yiue his soule good reste.

Proverbs and Sayings

English

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur (Q) 1863-1944

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Henry V

Men of few words are the best men.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Measure for Measure

They say best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

I have said what I meant and meant what I said.I have not done as well as I should like to have
done, but I have done my best, frankly and forthrightly; no man can do more, and you  are entitled to no less.

Tusser Thomas c. 1524-1580

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

Seek home for rest,
For home is best.

Voltaire 1694-1778

Candide

In this best of possible worlds ... all is for the best.[usually quoted „All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."]

Voltaire 1694-1778

Candide

The best is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire 1694-1778

The Piccini Notebooks

God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900

Impressions of America „Leadville"

Please do not shoot the pianist.
He is doing his best.

Yeats William Butler 1865-1939

„From Oedipus at Colonus"

The second best's a gay good-night and quickly turn away.

Yeats William Butler 1865-1939

‚The Second Coming"

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

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