Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 16)

"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one"

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

"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete"

Lao Tzu, Author

"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"When good Americans die they go to Paris"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"An overflow of good converts to bad"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"A good indignation brings out all one's powers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Good men must not obey the laws too well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"A good garden may have some weeds"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside"

Stephen King, Author