Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 4)

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well"

"When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion"

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy"

Lee Grant, Actress

"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty"

Sallust, Historian

"In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"

George Canning, Statesman

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"In a certain sense the Good is comfortless"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad"

Bill Ford, Businessman

"The public is always good"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?"

Chanakya, Politician

"No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful"

Vita Sackville-West, Novelist

"Death is very often referred to as a good career move"

Buddy Holly, Musician

"If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials"

Ronald Knox, Theologian

"Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions"

Sunil Gavaskar, Athlete

"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace"

Frederick W. Taylor, Scientist

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement"

Jim Horning, Scientist

"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

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