#nearest

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#course #doctor #feeling #golf #golf course

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

#bureau #disappear #earth #eternal #eternal life

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

#blurt #dearest #ever #everybody #get

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. ↗

— George Bancroft

#common mind #criterion #decision #faculty #mind

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. ↗

— Charlotte Curtis

#coast #east #edith #henry #henry james

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. ↗

— William McKinley

#defeat #may #nearest #time #victory

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#boat #clothes #crew #crew members #four

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

#blue #brown #came #christ #get

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. ↗

— Alexander John Ellis

#accurate #cent #nearest #practical #practical purposes

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

#dare #dearest #dedicate #dislikes #fears