Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A good husband makes a good wife.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Only the young die good.

Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Fun is good.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

No good deed goes unpunished.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Paris is always a good idea.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

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.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

A hard man is good to find.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Better is the enemy of good.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.