974 private quotes tagged good

“The best is the enemy of the good.” — Voltaire

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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.” — Thomas Paine

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Every good painter paints what he is.” — Jackson Pollock

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“There is no such thing as a good tax.” — Winston Churchill

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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” — Ansel Adams

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“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” — Aldous Huxley

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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill

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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.” — Plato

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“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” — Plato

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“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.” — Ernest Hemingway

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