Good Quotes

"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"I want to be an honest man and a good writer"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Good words will not give me back my children"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing"

Cleobulus, Poet

"To be a good loser is to learn how to win"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity"

Malcolm X, Activist

"If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

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