With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Rodney Dangerfield

That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus

Modesty is my best quality.
Jack Benny

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank

You'll live. Only the best get killed.
Charles de Gaulle

If a man has done his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Ernest Holmes

The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Voltaire

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen