Famous Quotes

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 Gilbert K. Chesterton

• "Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past."

• "All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change."

• "Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

• "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

• "All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."