974 private quotes tagged good

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

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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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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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“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare

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

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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” — Aldous Huxley

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“For good nurture and education, implant good constitutions.” — Plato

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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.” — Plato

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“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“We will have to repent in this generation; not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.” — Ray Bradbury

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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin

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