The Good Quotes

Humor is a good way in general to get people together, I think. Of course, Danish humor is more ironic and sarcastic altogether.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I don't think a bankruptcy is a good thing.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

Change is hard, but change is good.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

I love thee, as the good love heaven.

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

I have to get at least 10 hours of sleep or it's not a good day!

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.