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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
by Burton Hills

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

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Quotes by Burton Hills

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

Best Quotes and Sayings

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman

There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

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

In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin

The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous

Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill

That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne's Winnie-The-Pooh

Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)

Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

The best comfort I could offer
was to just let her tell her story.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

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