Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 5)

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire"

Lewis J. Bates

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"You're only as good as your last record"

David Sanborn, Musician

"Good words cool more than cold water"

John Ray, Environmentalist

"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband"

Anna Faris, Actress

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always"

Sophocles, Author

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth"

Sophocles, Author

"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good"

Sophocles, Author

"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain"

Bob Marley, Musician

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving"

Lao Tzu, Author

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A man is not good or bad for one action"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost"

Stephen King, Author

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind"

Voltaire, Writer

"In art the best is good enough"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good"

Woody Allen, Director

"It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives"

Euripides, Poet

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account"

Euripides, Poet

"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings"

George Herbert, Poet

"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"

Thomas Jefferson, President

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