Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 18)

"Acorns were good until bread was found"

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The good of the people is the greatest law"

Cicero, Philosopher

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil"

Cicero, Philosopher

"A good reputation is more valuable than money"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits"

Thomas Jefferson, President