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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“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.” — Will Rogers

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“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.” — Voltaire

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

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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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“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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“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.” — Oscar Wilde

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“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.” — Winston Churchill

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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” — Michel de Montaigne

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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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“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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“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” — William Shakespeare

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“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” — William Shakespeare

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“Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.” — Will Rogers

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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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“The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” — Sun Tzu

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“I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.” — Aristotle

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“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.” — William Shakespeare

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

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