Good Quotes

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness"

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed"

"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less"

Plato, Philosopher

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"

Plato, Philosopher

"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Great and good are seldom the same man"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Nothing leads to good that is not natural"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful""

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes"

John Ruskin, Writer

"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts"

Og Mandino, Author

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly"

Democritus, Philosopher

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