Good Quotes

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

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.

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

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

A mask tells us more than a face.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

It is better to be good than to be original,

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

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

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

A good thing never ends.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

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.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

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.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

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.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

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

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

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.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

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.

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

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.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A good example is the best sermon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

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.

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.

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.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

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.

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

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.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

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.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

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

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.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

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

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

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

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Fun is good.

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

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

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.

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.

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

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

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.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

Less is only more where more is no good.

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.

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

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

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.

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.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude,

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.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

The good and wise lead quite lives

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

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.

Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

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!

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.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.

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.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

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.

If somebody mistreats you, treat ?em good. That kills ?em.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

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

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

Only the young die good.

A good garden may have some weeds.

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.

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.

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.

Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

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.

A really good detective never gets married.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

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.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

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.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

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.

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.

A good teacher is a determined person.

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.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

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

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Good enough never is.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

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

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

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

I would have made a good pope.

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

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

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.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

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.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

When I hit one over, I knew I was good.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

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.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

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

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.

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

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.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

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.

Good council has no price.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

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.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

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.

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?

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

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

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

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.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

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.

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

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.

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.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

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.

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.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

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.

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

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.

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.

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

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

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.

Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life

What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux - Sans rien derrière eux ?)

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Bad is never good until worse happens

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Don't make excuses, make good.

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.

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.

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog—keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

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

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.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

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 — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

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.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

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.

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.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

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.

I think it would be a good idea.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

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.

I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.

Men become old, but they never become good.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

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

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.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.

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.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

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

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

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good?

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

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.

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.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

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

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

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.

I'd rather be lucky than good

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.