974 private quotes tagged good

“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.” — Oscar Wilde

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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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“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.” — Albert Einstein

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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” — Plato

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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.” — William Shakespeare

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“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.” — William Shakespeare

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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“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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“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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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.” — William Shakespeare

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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” — Oscar Wilde

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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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“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.” — Swami Vivekananda

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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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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Ronald Reagan

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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” — Benjamin Franklin

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