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. 58 other views from Thomas Carlyle

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. 58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. 21 views from Jane Austen

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. 58 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. 58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. 10 sayings from Og Mandino

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. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. 58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. 12 more quotes from Frank Zappa

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 75 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. 58 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

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. 10 views from Frank Sinatra

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. 10 quotes from Og Mandino

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. 11 quotes from Joseph Stalin

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. 24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. 96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

A good garden may have some weeds. 45 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller

A good husband makes a good wife. 3 sayings from John Florio

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends. 2 other sayings from Frank Crane

Acorns were good until bread was found. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. 96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. 12 thoughts from Ludwig van Beethoven

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. 12 other thoughts from Thomas Merton

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. 8 thoughts from Tryon Edwards

Diligence is the mother of good luck. 96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Every good painter paints what he is. 4 sayings from Jackson Pollock

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. 15 views from Albert Schweitzer

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. 21 other views from George Burns

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. 96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. 96 views from Benjamin Franklin

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. 41 other views from Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass. 9 other quotes from Barry Goldwater

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. 24 sayings from Franklin D. Roosevelt

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. 40 views from William James

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. 6 sayings from Edith Wharton

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. 12 other quotes from Zora Neale Hurston

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. 25 other thoughts from Orison Swett Marden

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. 15 views from Albert Schweitzer

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. 96 more thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. 29 thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham

Necessity never made a good bargain. 96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. 7 quotes from Tallulah Bankhead

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. 12 other sayings from Ludwig van Beethoven

Only the young die good. 5 wisdom & wit from Oliver Herford

Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing. 13 thoughts from Alexander Hamilton

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. 41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). 7 quotes from Lewis Carroll

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. 20 sayings from Thomas Aquinas

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. 96 more thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. 40 other views from William James

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. 4 views from Carl Rogers

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. 14 thoughts from William Arthur Ward

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. 9 thoughts from Swami Vivekananda

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. 17 quotes from Plutarch

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. 37 other quotes from Edmund Burke

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. 3 wisdom & wit from Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. 41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. 25 other wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden

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. 25 other views from Orison Swett Marden

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. 96 views from Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. 24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

There was never a good war, or a bad peace. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

To be a good loser is to learn how to win. 24 more views from Carl Sandburg

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. 17 quotes from Plutarch

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

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. 40 wisdom & wit from William James

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? 26 more views from E. M. Forster

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. 31 views from Thomas Paine

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. 47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. 47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. 14 more thoughts from Susan B. Anthony

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. 30 views from George Washington

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. 31 more thoughts from Thomas Paine

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. 11 other thoughts from Bob Marley

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. 26 sayings from Charles Dickens

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. 31 more thoughts from Thomas Paine

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good. 12 more quotes from John Barrymore

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. 11 quotes from Bob Marley

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. 30 sayings from George Washington

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. 31 views from Thomas Paine

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. 13 more views from Ansel Adams

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. 23 wisdom & wit from Thomas A. Edison

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. 8 more views from Charles Darwin

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. 73 thoughts from Victor Hugo

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. 6 wisdom & wit from Barbara Jordan

Whatever you are, be a good one. 47 wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. 12 thoughts from John Barrymore

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. 32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. 13 quotes from Ansel Adams

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. 5 more quotes from Richard Whately

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. 73 other wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. 26 views from Charles Dickens

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company. 30 other thoughts from George Washington

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. 12 more wisdom & wit from George Jean Nathan

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. 24 more views from Ayn Rand

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. 31 more sayings from Thomas Paine

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. 10 quotes from Ramakrishna

God never made a promise that was too good to be true. 8 more sayings from Dwight L. Moody

Good things happen to those who hustle. 21 other quotes from Anais Nin

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. 5 other quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. 30 other quotes from George Washington

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up. 6 more quotes from Lana Turner

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. 32 other wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. 26 other thoughts from Charles Dickens

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. 12 other quotes from John Barrymore

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. 31 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. 4 sayings from Maxim Gorky

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. 23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. 16 wisdom & wit from Michelangelo

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. 2 thoughts from Howard Aiken

Fun is good. 8 more sayings from Dr. Seuss

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. 105 other sayings from Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. 5 other wisdom & wit from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. 11 other quotes from Rene Descartes

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. 17 more thoughts from Chief Joseph

No good deed goes unpunished. 11 more views from Clare Boothe Luce

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. 4 other views from Channing Pollock

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. 11 wisdom & wit from Rene Descartes

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. 8 views from Dr. Seuss

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. 8 more quotes from Dr. Seuss

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. 42 other quotes from Josh Billings

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. 41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. 41 other quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. 81 more quotes from William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. 41 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. 21 more quotes from William Wordsworth

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. 70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday. 41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. 41 other quotes from Marcus Aurelius

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. 41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. 2 wisdom & wit from J. P. Morgan

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. 4 wisdom & wit from Charles Evans Hughes

An overflow of good converts to bad. 81 other thoughts from William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. 81 thoughts from William Shakespeare

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. 10 other quotes from Booker T. Washington

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. 13 more views from John Muir

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. 81 more quotes from William Shakespeare

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. 16 quotes from David Hume

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. 70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

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. 81 other views from William Shakespeare

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. 15 quotes from Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. 15 other views from Orson Welles

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. 53 more wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac

A good indignation brings out all one's powers. 135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. 52 more sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. 23 thoughts from E. W. Howe

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. 6 other wisdom & wit from Bernard Meltzer

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. 45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. 26 views from Sigmund Freud

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. 24 wisdom & wit from James A. Baldwin

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. 11 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. 135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. 22 more thoughts from Soren Kierkegaard

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well. 135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. 21 other quotes from Karl Marx

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. 23 sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. 35 more wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. 30 thoughts from Walt Whitman

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. 30 quotes from Walt Whitman

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. 30 sayings from Walt Whitman

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. 7 sayings from Jerome K. Jerome

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. 11 other views from Salvador Dali

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. 52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. 21 wisdom & wit from Malcolm X

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. 15 wisdom & wit from Orson Welles

Paris is always a good idea. 14 sayings from Audrey Hepburn

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 45 other sayings from Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. 45 sayings from Bertrand Russell

The pay is good and I can walk to work. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

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. 16 more quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. 15 more thoughts from Christopher Morley

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Less is only more where more is no good. 26 more wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. 47 other sayings from George Orwell

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. 47 quotes from George Orwell

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. 12 thoughts from Marquis de Sade

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. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. 47 other sayings from George Orwell

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. 16 quotes from Vince Lombardi

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. 31 more quotes from Helen Keller

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. 59 views from Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. 47 views from George Orwell

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me? 53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? 53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. 59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. 58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin? 53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. 10 other quotes from John Maynard Keynes

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Four legs good, two legs bad. 47 quotes from George Orwell

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. 11 quotes from David Ogilvy

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Good writing is like a windowpane. 47 quotes from George Orwell

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. 53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe

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. 53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. 53 other thoughts from Marilyn Monroe

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. 57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. 45 thoughts from Aldous Huxley

A good laugh is sunshine in the house. 8 quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. 3 quotes from Don Herold

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. 32 views from Henry Ford

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

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. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. 117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. 35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. 24 more wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. 14 thoughts from Robert A. Heinlein

Be not simply good - be good for something. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. 14 thoughts from Robert A. Heinlein

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. 117 other views from Henry David Thoreau

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. 10 thoughts from John D. Rockefeller

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. 45 views from Aldous Huxley

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. 12 thoughts from Casey Stengel

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. 35 other wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. 3 quotes from Margaret Walker

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. 10 quotes from John D. Rockefeller

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. 45 more thoughts from Aldous Huxley

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. 27 views from Dave Barry

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. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. 5 quotes from Frida Kahlo

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. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. 35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. 19 views from E. B. White

It takes a great man to be a good listener. 17 views from Calvin Coolidge

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. 8 more sayings from Benito Mussolini

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. 45 quotes from Aldous Huxley

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. 3 other quotes from Roger Babson

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. 45 more thoughts from Aldous Huxley

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. 115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. 117 more wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. 14 more sayings from Robert A. Heinlein

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. 7 more wisdom & wit from John Quincy Adams

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. 35 other thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. 14 other quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. 35 other thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. 2 more quotes from John Derek

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 thoughts from Andy Warhol

Too much of a good thing can be taxing. 31 more sayings from Mae West

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. 31 thoughts from Mae West

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. 18 other views from Mother Teresa

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. 31 wisdom & wit from Mae West

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better. 31 more thoughts from Mae West

A hard man is good to find. 31 other quotes from Mae West

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. 5 more quotes from Charles Bukowski

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. 18 quotes from Andy Warhol

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. 7 sayings from Marcus Garvey

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one. 31 views from Mae West

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. 9 wisdom & wit from Alfred Hitchcock

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. 11 thoughts from Lucille Ball

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. 60 sayings from H. L. Mencken

A good listener is usually thinking about something else. 27 other quotes from Kin Hubbard

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. 12 quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. 63 wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson

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. 23 more quotes from T. S. Eliot

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. 60 other quotes from H. L. Mencken

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. 90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. 60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. 90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. 2 other quotes from Grandma Moses

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. 60 other wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. 24 other thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. 27 thoughts from Kin Hubbard

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. 63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. 90 other sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. 13 other sayings from e. e. cummings

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. 2 thoughts from Emily Post

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. 8 quotes from Helen Hayes

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. 30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. 29 more views from Pablo Picasso

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. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. 100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde

The good man is the friend of all living things. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

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. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. 9 wisdom & wit from Hannah Arendt

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. 100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

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. 4 thoughts from James Truslow Adams

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. 100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

When good Americans die they go to Paris. 100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. 103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. 36 more sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. 3 wisdom & wit from Daniel Boone

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. 4 views from Thomas Tusser

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. 9 quotes from Hannah Arendt

Good artists copy, great artists steal. 29 more views from Pablo Picasso

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. 100 other views from Mahatma Gandhi

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. 100 more views from Oscar Wilde

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? 33 other thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? 33 more wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 100 other thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. 29 other thoughts from Groucho Marx

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent. 100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. 29 thoughts from Groucho Marx

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. 8 quotes from Helen Hayes

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. 100 views from Oscar Wilde

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. 9 wisdom & wit from Carl Sagan

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. 14 more thoughts from Hedy Lamarr

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. 20 other wisdom & wit from George S. Patton

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one. 9 quotes from Pope John XXIII

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. 39 other thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson

Active Evil is better than Passive Good. 32 quotes from William Blake

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. 39 sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson

All styles are good except the tiresome kind. 78 more quotes from Voltaire

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. 57 more thoughts from Will Rogers

Better is the enemy of good. 78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

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. 57 thoughts from Will Rogers

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. 78 sayings from Voltaire

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. 52 quotes from George Eliot

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled. 98 thoughts from Mark Twain

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable. 10 wisdom & wit from Louisa May Alcott

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 98 thoughts from Mark Twain

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

Great and good are seldom the same man. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. 2 other sayings from John Bunyan

I can live for two months on a good compliment. 98 more thoughts from Mark Twain

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. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. 2 more thoughts from Konrad Lorenz

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. 74 other views from Winston Churchill

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. 78 thoughts from Voltaire

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. 98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

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. 9 thoughts from Charles M. Schulz

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing good ever comes of violence. 32 other wisdom & wit from Martin Luther

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. 25 quotes from C. S. Lewis

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. 98 views from Mark Twain

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. 13 more quotes from Andrew Carnegie

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. 7 quotes from Ninon de L'Enclos

The best is the enemy of the good. 78 views from Voltaire

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. 9 quotes from Carl Sagan

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. 98 more thoughts from Mark Twain

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. 32 more quotes from Martin Luther

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. 39 sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. 78 more sayings from Voltaire

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. 32 other sayings from Martin Luther

There is no such thing as a good tax. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

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. 52 other thoughts from Albert Camus

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. 74 more thoughts from Winston Churchill

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work. 98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. 98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

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. 25 more sayings from Will Durant

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. 3 more quotes from Roy Rogers

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. 39 more quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

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. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. 74 other sayings from Winston Churchill