974 private quotes tagged good

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

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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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“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.” — Steve Jobs

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“Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.” — George Carlin

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“When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“Necessity never made a good bargain.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.” — Albert Camus

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

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“It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.” — Ronald Reagan

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

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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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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius

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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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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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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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“The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.” — Plutarch

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“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” — William Shakespeare

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