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Best Quotes About Good (Top 100)
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Whatever you are, be a good one
Abraham Lincoln -
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner -
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
C.S. Lewis -
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Mae West -
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu -
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare -
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
Dr. Seuss -
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus -
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln -
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost -
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu -
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde -
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Mae West -
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley -
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Aristotle -
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire -
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius -
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman -
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward -
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Dorothy Parker -
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein -
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare -
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer -
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde -
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates -
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz -
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde -
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West -
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles M. Schulz -
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp -
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen -
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky -
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen -
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.
G K Chesterton -
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost -
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein -
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
Coco Chanel -
Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
William Shakespeare -
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln -
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde -
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln -
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
David Livingstone -
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward -
Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.
Francesca Lia Block -
Be good and you will be lonely.
Mark Twain -
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Mark Twain -
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Carl Rogers -
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde -
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle -
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein -
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli -
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin -
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin -
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes -
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley -
You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player does, but then when you put him into your system, it's not quite the same player that he was in another system. He has some strengths, but you cant utilize all those strengths. If you try to utilize all his strengths, you end up weakening a lot of other players who are already in your system.
Bill Belichick -
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Robert Frost -
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens -
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
Mark Twain -
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky -
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
Winston Churchill -
Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
John C. Maxwell -
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn -
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton -
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde -
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie -
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller -
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein -
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde -
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Robert E. Lee -
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
Mikhail Gorbachev -
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird -
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
L. Frank Baum -
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
James A. Michener -
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne -
It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
Henry Miller -
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
Eve Ensler -
We're lost, but we're making good time.
Yogi Berra -
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowski -
You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
Louis Farrakhan -
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde -
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Albert Einstein -
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen -
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Ponder -
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin -
Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.
Chris Martin -
Good is not good when better is expected.
Vin Scully -
When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things...
Ani DiFranco -
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton -
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin -
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas -
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.
Tiger Woods
Even More Good Quotes
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell -
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus -
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde -
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone -
A mask tells us more than a face.
Oscar Wilde -
Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
Jim Morrison -
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel -
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin -
It is better to be good than to be original,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
Billy Sunday -
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Cole Porter -
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan -
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
Steve Carell -
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Jim Bishop -
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain -
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold -
A good thing never ends.
Mick Jagger -
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard -
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly -
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson -
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Harvey Mackay -
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Clive James -
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Mary Astor -
You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt -
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Charles Barkley -
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates -
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
Horatio Nelson -
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
Will Rogers -
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
Byron Nelson -
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Althea Gibson -
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Catherine the Great -
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
Anthony Burgess -
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
Billy Wilder -
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
Arthur Baer -
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner -
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
William Shakespeare -
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney -
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Cotton Mather -
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.
Walter Winchell -
Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.
Clarence Thomas -
I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
Cher -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
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.
Jimi Hendrix -
A good example is the best sermon.
Benjamin Franklin -
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Christopher Dawson -
If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.
William Randolph Hearst -
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen -
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Heinrich Heine -
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn -
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Janis Joplin -
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha -
Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
Dan Castellaneta -
To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.
Avril Lavigne -
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North -
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Cecil Rhodes -
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
John Lennon -
July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.
Colin Chapman -
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood -
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde -
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
Charles Evans Hughes -
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard -
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin -
I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.
Ashton Kutcher -
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe -
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos -
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein -
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
William Feather -
Fun is good.
Dr. Seuss -
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin -
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
Cavett Robert -
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock -
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Dave Allen -
It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
Erle Stanley Gardner -
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds -
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
Arthur Freed -
When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
Herschel Walker -
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
Judi Dench -
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
Count Basie -
With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
Kate Beckinsale -
It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank A. Clark -
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi -
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein -
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 -
If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
Ted Williams -
You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.
Celia Cruz -
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James -
A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
John Powell -
Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
David Mamet -
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Truman Capote -
Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
Jim Davis -
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell -
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Rupert Brooke -
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving -
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley -
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
Bill Walton -
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Clifton Fadiman -
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
Charles R. Swindoll -
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Lawrence Welk -
Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude,
Jean Chretien -
That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr -
I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.
Jamie Foxx -
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Clarence Day -
The good and wise lead quite lives
Euripides -
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian -
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill -
My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.
George A. Romero -
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
Elizabeth Bibesco -
Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.
Billy Bush -
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
Casey Affleck -
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
Benjamin Franklin -
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
Boris Johnson -
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
Robert Half -
You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.
Brian Jordan -
You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!
Arsenio Hall -
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom -
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Frank Shorter -
If somebody mistreats you, treat ?em good. That kills ?em.
Bobby Bowden -
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Charles Erwin Wilson -
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
Edgar Lee Masters -
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot -
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney -
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
John Barrymore -
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Charles Barkley -
When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
Newton N. Minow -
I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.
Fred Perry -
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes -
Only the young die good.
Oliver Herford -
It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.
Catherine Deneuve -
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller -
Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.
Kimi Raikkonen -
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier -
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann -
You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. Seuss -
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake -
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann -
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill -
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
Sylvia Browne -
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius -
A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler -
A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
Jack Dempsey -
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
Edward Steichen -
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
John Cleese -
I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl. I'm just normal, and that's what I'm going to be. There's no bad girl with whips and chains that's going to come out. I think people like me because I was myself.
Kelly Clarkson -
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn -
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
Benito Mussolini -
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison -
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
Aristotle -
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin -
A good teacher is a determined person.
Gilbert Highet -
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
Walt Kelly -
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
Cesare Lombroso -
"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.
Alice Childress -
I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
William Petersen -
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.
Will Rogers -
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish -
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir -
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
Richard M. Nixon -
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
Cavett Robert -
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock -
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Marie Dressler -
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix -
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
Good enough never is.
Debbi Fields -
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
Charlotte Bunch -
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Josh Billings -
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
Al McGuire -
Good talkers are only found in Paris.
Francois Villon -
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates -
Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
Kenny Rogers -
I would have made a good pope.
Richard M. Nixon -
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
James Whistler -
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Jan Masaryk -
I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.
Carlo Ancelotti -
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnett -
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Voltaire -
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Carrie Fisher -
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Leo Durocher -
All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
Babe Ruth -
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri -
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
Earl Weaver -
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
Craig Claiborne -
When I hit one over, I knew I was good.
Ray Allen -
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Wendell Phillips -
As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
Bobby Sherman -
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
Earl Long -
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
Anthony Eden -
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake -
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Jean Ingelow -
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Sanders -
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein -
A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
Cleveland Amory -
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
Colin Baker -
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
Benicio Del Toro -
You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.
Rafael Benitez -
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley -
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas
Avram Noam Chomsky -
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
William Saroyan -
Good council has no price.
Giuseppe Mazzini -
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce -
I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
Brad Dourif -
To do nothing is also a good remedy.
Hippocrates -
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Fanny Brice -
Mustard's no good without roast beef.
Chico Marx -
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston -
A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?
James Hogg -
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
Andrew Johnson -
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke -
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
Kathe Kollwitz -
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
Bear Bryant -
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
Clementine Paddleford -
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant -
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Anne Rice -
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha -
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks -
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris -
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.
Christopher Nolan -
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
James Thomson -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song
Charles Kingsley -
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles -
I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.
William Albert Allard -
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Vince Lombardi -
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini -
Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
Alexander Wilson -
There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.
Billy Connolly -
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
Benjamin Franklin -
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bentley -
I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
Damon Hill -
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
Colin Baker -
I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.
Lenny Wilkens -
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
Edmund Burke -
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn -
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton -
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha -
I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.
Claudia Christian -
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
Aretha Franklin -
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde -
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.
Peter Bogdanovich -
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Irving Thalberg -
Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
William M. Holden -
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours
Swedish Proverb -
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
William Safire -
I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
Campbell Scott -
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life
Martin Dansky -
Good families are generally worse than any others.
Anthony Hope -
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
John Mason Brown -
What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux - Sans rien derrière eux ?)
Charles de Leusse -
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman -
I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.
Michelle Wie -
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey -
Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
James Russell Lowell -
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Oscar Wilde -
You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.
Donny Osmond -
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog—keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.
Edward Noyes Westcott -
You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
Alan Cohen -
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde -
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber -
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Lucille Ball -
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow -
In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
William Howard Taft -
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James -
I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.
Chuck Knox -
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all â he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
Charles Farrar Browne -
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
W. H. Auden -
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne -
Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good?
Kanye West -
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden -
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
Charles Kingsley -
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha -
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha -
I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.
Andy Williams -
I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.
Andy Roddick -
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
Buddha -
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Tryon Edwards -
I'd rather be lucky than good
Lefty Gomez -
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving -
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo -
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
Abraham Lincoln -
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
John Milton -
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin -
Don't make excuses, make good.
Elbert Hubbard -
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin -
It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.
Will Shetterly -
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Lord Chesterfield -
You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.
William Albert Allard -
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Charles F. Kettering -
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost -
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire -
Men become old, but they never become good.
Oscar Wilde -
Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.
David Letterman -
Bad is never good until worse happens
Danish Proverb -
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
Bobby Fischer -
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde -
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese -
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams -
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
William Penn -
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
Arthur Miller -
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
Amy Sedaris -
I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
Will Rogers -
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.
Will Rogers -
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers -
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
George Burns -
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold -
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin -
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
Carl T. Rowan -
When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
Kin Hubbard -
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
Abraham Lincoln -
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama -
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
William Hutton -
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasgow -
In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.
Cher -
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
William Penn -
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams