974 private quotes tagged good

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.” — Plato

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” — George Orwell

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“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.” — Samuel Johnson

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“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.” — Bill Gates

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“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.” — Sophocles

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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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“Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.” — Richard Whately

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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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