No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnThe more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
ConfuciusFinishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
William FeatherFirst the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve MartinWhatever you are be a good one.
Abraham LincolnNext to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Charles Caleb ColtonTweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.
Steve MartinYou have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something sometime in your life.
Winston ChurchillWhen I do good I feel good. When I do bad I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham LincolnGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark TwainLove sought is good but given unsought is better.
William ShakespeareThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand RussellHe who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
Rabindranath TagoreA 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...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...
AristotleThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark TwainDon't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John SteinbeckIn the arena of human life. the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
AristotleBuying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur SchopenhauerBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham LincolnMy 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 AustenAny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya AngelouI do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is....
BuddhaHowever many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act on upon them?
BuddhaA good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheAll virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
AristotleDiligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin FranklinThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiLove is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. LewisGive, even if you only have a little.
BuddhaOur doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William ShakespeareThe 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 damn life, and one is as good as the other.
Ernest HemingwayNobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane AustenThere was never a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinIf I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouTreat those who are good with goodness and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao TzuA good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil, is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
BuddhaThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel JohnsonI am one who loved not wisely but too well.
William ShakespeareYour life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran LebowitzIt is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen KellerDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark TwainGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaA retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert HubbardSome good, some so-so and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend
Marcus AureliusAnger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin FranklinHumility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran LebowitzIt's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
Dolly PartonBetter is the enemy of good.
VoltaireParents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne FrankGood night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William ShakespeareI always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar WildeThe synthesis of pure calming food is breathing pure air, listening to good sounds, looking at good sights, and touching pure objects.
Sai BabaThe refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
David Herbert LawrenceA 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 BeecherWhat a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark TwainI look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.
Dolly PartonAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis StevensonWhy is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La RochefoucauldJudge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
Gustave FlaubertBelieve nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever after due examination and analysis you find to be kind conducive to the good the benefit the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide
BuddhaHere on the pulse of this new day, You may have the grace to look up and out, And into your sister's eyes into, Your brother's face your country, And say simply, Very simply, With hope, Good Morning.
Maya AngelouAn overflow of good converts to bad.
William ShakespeareI like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae WestI care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de MontaigneA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao TzuIn Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.
John BarrymoreA dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
BuddhaIf you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. Somerset MaughamGood ideas, good conduct and adherence to Truth should result from our education. Only those who acquire these qualities can be called truly educated.
Sai BabaA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night, or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de BalzacI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar WildeAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George EliotBeing generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions, this is the best good luck.
BuddhaSearch well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
AeschylusThere is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin FranklinWe shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother TeresaIt takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin FranklinGreat 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 BonaparteHope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
Francis BaconEndure and persist, this pain will turn to good by and by.
OvidOne lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John DeweyBut the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
Deepak ChopraFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayA man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore RooseveltBeing deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words, this is good luck.
BuddhaThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA good wife is of value only to her husband. A good mother is a national asset.
Sai BabaTalk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDiligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin DisraeliAll good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott FitzgeraldBecause of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Soren KierkegaardA good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does, and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
ChanakyaEarning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education.
Sai BabaIn 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 TzuWe are all selfish, and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord ByronEnemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
SophoclesHonest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiAbout the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh BillingsMoney will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh BillingsBy polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
AeschylusAll good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest HemingwayThe infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellGood has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely, and that which is good for somebody.
AristotleLaw means good order.
AristotleThe four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. ForsterIn modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest HemingwayDeath and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
MichelangeloLaw is order, and good law is good order.
AristotleA fool despises good counsel but a wise man takes it to heart.
ConfuciusJudgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne DyerNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth or an impotence of will.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob MarleyI learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl SandburgHe who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath TagoreGo to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Henry RollinsNothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin Pierce AdamsWicked men obey out of fear, good men out of love.
AristotleMan is a credulous animal and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand RussellAll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth, come only from the senses.
Friedrich NietzscheHe who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
AristotleObserve good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George WashingtonIn counsel it is good to see dangers, but in execution not to see them unless they be very great.
Francis BaconSo it is naturally with the male and the female, the one is superior the other inferior, the one governs the other is governed, and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
AristotleHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinAs a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I born in the world, raised in the world, having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
BuddhaMan has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel New York wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.
Douglas AdamsMany a man fails as an original thinker, simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich NietzscheFor all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas CarlyleIf I am walking with two other men, each of them I will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
ConfuciusFortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EuripidesThe state exists for the sake of a good life and not for the sake of life only
AristotleIf one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar WildeMen of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SophoclesDespair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace ThackerayA good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John BurroughsIt is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult, that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria RilkeA man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma GandhiTo support mother and father to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood, this is the good luck.
BuddhaWhat is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. ForsterTherefore the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
AristotleHe who wished to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
ConfuciusA good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
AristotleOne who drinks the nectar of the Good Law lives happily with a tranquil mind. The wise man ever delights in the Dhamma as realized by the Noble Ones.
BuddhaForget the harm that anyone has done to you, and forget the good that you have done to others.
Sai BabaSex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.
Deepak ChopraSo long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen KellerHere's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
Charlie SheenWhen good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar WildeVirtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BuddhaHow far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William ShakespeareNo man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
C. S. LewisThere is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
C. S. LewisI don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.
Bob MarleyCan one desire too much of a good thing?
William ShakespeareThe story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello goodbye.
Jimi HendrixWhatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them, for good or ill.
BuddhaThe good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Mother TeresaQuarrel? Nonsense, we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George EliotIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness, and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinWriting is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Herman HesseVirtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
William ShakespeareLife is never fair and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonI feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank SinatraOur concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldBoldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Francis Bacon