Famous Quotes
- The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
- Ernest Hemingway on Good
- The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
- Ray Manzarek on Good
- The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde on Good
- The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson on Good
- The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
- The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Wendell Berry on Good
- The pay is good and I can walk to work.
- John F. Kennedy on Good
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- Jane Austen on Good
- The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
- The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
- Rene Descartes on Good
- The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
- Lyn Nofziger on Good
- The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt on Good
- The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
- The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
- Tony Dungy on Good
- The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on Good
- The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner on Good
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
- Drew Barrymore on Good
- The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol on Good
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson on Good
- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Good
- The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Good
- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Richard Dawkins on Good
- The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
- George Washington on Good
- The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
- M. Scott Peck on Good
- The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Good
- The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
- Thomas Carlyle on Good
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine on Good
- The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
- Nina Simone on Good
- There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
- Thomas Carlyle on Good
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- Ansel Adams on Good
- There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
- Sean Lennon on Good
- There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain on Good
- There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
- John Cusack on Good
- There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
- Sitting Bull on Good
- There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley on Good
- There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Good
- There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
- Billy Graham on Good
- There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
- There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
- H. L. Mencken on Good
- There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Good
- There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
- Orison Swett Marden on Good
- There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Good
- There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Good
- There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau on Good
- There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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