974 private quotes tagged good

“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

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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.” — H. L. Mencken

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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” — Francis Bacon

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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.” — Sun Tzu

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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” — Mark Twain

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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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“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

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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.” — Martin Luther

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“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.” — Mark Twain

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank

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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” — Mark Twain

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“An overflow of good converts to bad.” — William Shakespeare

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“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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