Famous Quotes

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

George Santayana 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 George Santayana

• "The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age."

• "Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine."

• "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

• "The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

• "It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands."