Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 21)

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

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

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful"

Mae West, Actress

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

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