Good Quotes

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best"

Jane Austen, Writer

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Good parties create a temporary youthfulness"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be"

George Orwell, Author

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good"

George Washington, President

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good"

Socrates, Philosopher

"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him"

John Locke, Philosopher

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it"

Andrew Jackson, President

"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off"

Roger McGough, Poet

"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"It's always good to be underestimated"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory"

George Savile, Politician

"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil"

Lyn Nofziger

"One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others"

Sallust, Historian

"In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won"

Walt Whitman, Poet

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