974 private quotes tagged good

“If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“A good listener is usually thinking about something else.” — Kin Hubbard

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“No good deed goes unpunished.” — Clare Boothe Luce

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“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.” — Ron Paul

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“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.” — Mike Tyson

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“When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” — John W. Gardner

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“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.” — Daniel Boone

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“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.” — Jane Austen

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“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.” — Euripides

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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” — Truman Capote

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“When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.” — Edwin Booth

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“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” — Anna Kendrick

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“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” — Charles Dickens

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“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.” — Maxim Gorky

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“The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.” — Helen Hayes

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“If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.” — Bill Hicks

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“Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.” — George Washington Carver

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