Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 26)

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one"

"Fun is good"

"In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges"

Andrew Jackson, President

"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Good order is the foundation of all things"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"Good things, when short, are twice as good"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries"

Mel Gibson, Actor

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