Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 48)

"I'm not a good guitar player"

"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune"

"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship"

"I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for"

Alice Walker, Author

"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion"

John Updike, Novelist

"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"A lot of good love can happen in ten years"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting"

Harry S. Truman, President

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night"

Chanakya, Politician

"A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom"

James Allen, Author

"Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are"

James Allen, Author

"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit"

James Allen, Author

"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Good writers are of necessity rare"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"All good Literature rests primarily on insight"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"To do nothing is also a good remedy"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction"

Harry S. Truman, President

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in"

Harry S. Truman, President

"We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable"

George Mason, Statesman

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