Best Things Quotes - Page 20

• Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fame, Equal

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.83, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, People, Water

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• What was the best thing before sliced bread?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Play, Yankees

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

  Michael Korda

  Funny, Happiness, Success

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Special, Bars

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• The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mom, Children, Memories

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Art, War

  Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, Lionel Giles (2006). “The Art of War”, p.13, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.

  Gladys Knight

  Appreciation, Sometimes, Fronts

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• Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

  Olivia Munn

  Night, Insomnia, Figuring It

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• I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her. I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

  Woody Harrelson

  Fathers Day, Daughter, Wall

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Beer, Ice

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• The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Government, Littles

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.63, Arcade Publishing

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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

  Pink

  Badass, Bad Ass, Giving

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• I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Kids

  "'I really miss him': Cristiano Ronaldo on Sir Alex Ferguson". CNN interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 16, 2012.

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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  Dorothy Day

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

  "TIME" Magazine, December 29, 1975.

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• You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

  John McGraw

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

  Dolores Huerta

  Kids, Army, Clothes

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• You have brought the best things in my life. I used to be so unhappy before but now I am filled with joy and peace. Thank you for bringing so many good things into my life.

  Jason Garrison

  Love You, Love Life, Joy

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• Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Love You, Love Is

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• I look at you looking at me, Now I know why the best things are free, How you've changed my world You'll never know, I'm different now, You've helped me grow.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Love You, World, Different

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• Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.

  Shailene Woodley

  Hippie, Clay, Body

  "From the Earth to Your Mouth" by Bee Shapiro, www.nytimes.com. August 27, 2014.

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• The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

  Alan Alda

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

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