Good Quotes

"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures"

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one"

"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better"

William James, Philosopher

"What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars"

William Blake, Poet

"Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does"

William Blake, Poet

"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it"

Buddha, Leader

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him"

Buddha, Leader

"I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"All the world loves a good loser"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"A good listener is usually thinking about something else"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

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