Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The best use of money is to pay debts. Pr.

The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. Locke.

The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself. Goldsmith.

The best way to please one half of the world is 10 not to mind what the other half says. Goldsmith.

The best work in the world is done on the quiet. Pr.

The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all. Ruskin.

The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Bacon.

The betrayer is the murderer. Gael. Pr.

The better a man is morally, the less conscious 15 he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings. Froude.

The better day the better deed. Walker.