974 private quotes tagged good

“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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 humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“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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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” — H. L. Mencken

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“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.” — Karl Marx

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“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” — George Orwell

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“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Great and good are seldom the same man.” — Winston Churchill

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“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.” — Ann Landers

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“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” — George Eliot

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

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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.” — Blaise Pascal

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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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