The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?