Famous Quotes

"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

Henry Van Dyke on Best

More quotes about Best

• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

  John Wooden on Best

• "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

  Thomas Jefferson on Best

• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Best

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

  e. e. cummings on Best

• "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

  Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by Henry Van Dyke

• "Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

• "Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

• "It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

• "Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

• "Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live."