Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 17)

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

Mark Twain, Author

"I can live for two months on a good compliment"

Mark Twain, Author

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

Mark Twain, Author

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

Mark Twain, Author

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Necessity never made a good bargain"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own"

Woody Allen, Director

"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, Director

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"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"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too"

Euripides, Poet

"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment"

Euripides, Poet

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love"

Euripides, Poet

"Do not consider painful what is good for you"

Euripides, Poet

"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"

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting"

David Carradine, Actor

"Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it"

David Carradine, Actor

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader