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So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.' -- Tim Vine
Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are. -- Henry David Thoreau
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. -- William McKinley
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. -- Rabindranath Tagore
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. -- Groucho Marx
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. -- George Carlin
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? -- Amelia Barr
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. -- George Bernard Shaw
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. -- David Hume
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere. -- Boris Johnson
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. -- Meister Eckhart
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. -- Ian Anderson
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. -- Lord Byron
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! -- Ronald Reagan
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. -- Abraham Maslow
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. -- Marguerite Duras
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. -- C. Wright Mills
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. -- Booker T. Washington
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. -- Norman Mailer
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! -- Frances Burney
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself. -- Steven Pinker
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away. -- Marc Andreessen
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. -- Carl Jung
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. -- Ben Carson
I am my nearest neighbour. -- Tacitus
Comedians are the nearest to suicide. -- Lawrence Durrell
A good friend is my nearest relation. -- Thomas Fuller
Man is the nearest approach to Brahman. -- Swami Vivekananda
Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart. -- Thomas Brooks
When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest. -- Edward Reynolds
Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection. -- Wes Fesler
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. -- Michael Tippett
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. -- B. C. Forbes
Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface. -- Henry David Thoreau
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. -- Ben Jonson
The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home. -- Charles Studd
I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods. -- Socrates
The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep -- Angelo Dundee
I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph. -- Charles Francis Richter
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods. -- Socrates
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. -- John Betjeman
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. -- James F. Byrnes
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. -- Alexander John Ellis
Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere. -- Patanjali
Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods. -- Diogenes Laertius
A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. -- Laurence Olivier
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. -- David Mitchell
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The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau. -- Hugh S. Johnson
He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent. -- Cato the Elder
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you. -- Louisa May Alcott
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. -- Confucius
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. -- Michel de Montaigne
Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. -- Homer
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades. -- Rick Riordan
I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere. -- Noel Coward
The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" -- Benjamin Franklin
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last. -- Elbert Hubbard
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. -- Neil Kinnock
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. -- Ambrose Bierce
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.. -- Ray Romano
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. -- Thomas Carlyle
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us. -- Pope Francis
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. -- Joseph Conrad
...Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman- -- Nicholls David
To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer -- Thomas Carlyle
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. -- Red Smith
REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress. -- Ambrose Bierce
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. -- Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. -- John Tillotson
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. -- Jonathan Sacks
The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams. -- A.J. Darkholme
Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. -- Fred G. Gosman
I turned and bumped by head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface. -- Ilona Andrews
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors." -- George Eliot
My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet. -- John Nettles
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. -- Sam Donaldson
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. -- George Bancroft
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. -- Mother Teresa
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. -- George Eliot
I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16. -- D. H. Lawrence
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At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall. -- James Patterson
Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him. -- Swami Vivekananda
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another. -- George MacDonald
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest. -- William Penn
When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against. -- S. T. Joshi
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. -- Charlotte Curtis
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life. -- Eric Hoffer
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. -- Don Meyer
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. -- Edith Wharton
Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest. -- Leonardo da Vinci
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. -- William Butler Yeats
You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself.""How about I express you out the nearest window? -- Greg Cox
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. -- Josh Billings
He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him. -- John McGraw
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom. -- Emily Dickinson
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. -- Walter Savage Landor
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. -- Terry Pratchett
Happiness has a simple recipe. Cherish your dearest, welcome your nearest, admire the simplest, honor the littlest, ignore the meaningless. -- Olarewaju Oladipo
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. -- William Faulkner
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. -- Victor Hugo

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