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If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, politically and militarily, the unanimous choice would have been Korea. Adams
I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith,'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all nor be afraid!'
Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Why not the best?
Prose = words in their best order;poetry = the best words in the best order.
'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?'suggested Mr Snodgrass.'Shout with the largest,'replied Mr Pickwick.
Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doingourbesttore-establishpeaceand civil order inthe Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continuetosuffer through no fault oftheirown.If wesucceed,ourmilitarysuccesswill have achieved its true objective.
But as to risings, I can tell you why. It is on contradiction that they grow. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. Up was the heartening and the strong reply. The heart of standing is we cannot fly.
Mother Knows Best.
The English, the English, the English are best! I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest!
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
What America does best is to understand itself.What it does worst is to understand others.
Of course in nature the only ending is death, but death hardly ever happens when people are at their best. That is why we like tragedies. They show men energetically with their wits about them and deserving to do it.
He serves his party best who serves his country best.
Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.
Farewell, sweet phrases, lovely metaphors: But will ye leave me thus? when ye before Of stews and brothels only knew the doors, Then did I wash you with my tears, and more, Brought you to church well-dressed and clad: My God must have my best, even all I had.
Always to be best, and to be distinguished above the rest.
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. See Bentham 77:65.
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.
Next tobeing right inthis world, thebest of all things isto be clearly and definitely wrong. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutelyand thoroughlyand persistently wrong you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking yourheadagainstafact, andthat setsyouallstraightagain.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
The best that an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountain top where few have been, where few can follow, and where few will consent to believe that he has been.
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't noTen Commandments an'a man can raise a thirst.
It is always easy to find fault with a classification. There are a hundred ways of arranging any set of objects, and something mayalmost always be said against the best, and in favour of the worst of them. But the merits of a classification depend on the purposes to which it is instrumental.
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night
The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so.
If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
Poetry is a record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
We will do our best to reward your faith in us, but please give us the opportunity to serve our country, that is all we ask.
Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
Drinking the best tea in the world in an empty cricket groundthat, I think, is the final pleasure left to man.
It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
All the nice people were poor; at least, that was a general axiom, the best of the rich being poor in spirit.
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles. All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. The best is the enemy of the good.
Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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