Quotes on Best Things

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are holding hers. ‘Me? Me?

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.