#nearest

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#bureau #earth #government #immortality #nearest

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#after #comes #expressing #inexpressible #nearest

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

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

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

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#comes #enough #his #insight #limitations

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking

A good friend is my nearest relation. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#good #good friend #nearest #relation

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

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#door #fire #gallery #i #national

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#casualty #come #compliments #course #embarrassing