Next Best Quotes

74 quotes by 59 authors

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. — Frank A. Clark
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a… — Michael Korda
You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step. — Neale Donald Walsch
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. — Charles M. Schulz
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the… — Sun Tzu
WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. — Ambrose Bierce
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. — Ambrose Bierce
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next… — Laozi
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races… — Abraham Lincoln
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a… — Chip Heath
A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen… — Charles Spurgeon
I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing:… — Charlie Finley
If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it. — John Doerr
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one. — Julius Charles Hare
The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision. — Scott McNealy

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