There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
SocratesNo 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.
ConfuciusFirst 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 LincolnTweeting 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 LincolnThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand RussellIf people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinHe who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
Rabindranath TagoreConquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.
Buddha...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...
AristotleBy all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll become happy, if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.
SocratesDon'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.
AristotleBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonThe best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar WildeNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham LincolnThere has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
BuddhaMy 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 AngelouIn battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.
Kahlil GibranThe virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
BuddhaI 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.
AristotleAll good things must come to an end, but all bad things can’t continue forever.
UnknownDiligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin FranklinFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar GracianThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiGive, 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 ShakespeareNobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane AustenIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Jane AustenThere was never a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareIf I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouPeople aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
Cassandra ClareTreat 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 KellerFor what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Kahlil GibranDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinLove is the answer but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody AllenEach year one vicious habit discarded in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinJust as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
BuddhaIt 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 FranklinNo, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen KingHumility 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 PartonA good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well, and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim RohnBetter is the enemy of good.
VoltaireIt is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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 FrankEvil is not power, it is ignorance and misuse of good.
James AllenGood night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William ShakespeareOld age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
ConfuciusI 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 LawrenceWhat 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 FlaubertHumans are basically good, but easily corrupted by poor leadership.
ConfuciusBelieve 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
BuddhaWell! Evil to some is always good to others.
Jane AustenHere 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 ShakespeareNo 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. ThompsonI 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 TzuYes, in all my research the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Deepak ChopraHope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar GracianThe human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. TrumanIn 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.
BuddhaTo be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.
Gustave FlaubertGood 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 BalzacTechnology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve JobsI 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.
BuddhaOne can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything, except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeSearch well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
AeschylusWhen you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
Maya AngelouFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere 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 BonaparteI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherIf merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William JamesHope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
Francis BaconTo my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.
Marcus AureliusIt usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark TwainEndure and persist, this pain will turn to good by and by.
OvidA single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! - the proper sport of boys and girls - but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane AustenOne 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 ChopraDiscourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham LincolnBeing 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 KierkegaardLuck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
John DeweyA 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 BabaHappiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid BergmanWe are all selfish, and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord ByronIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeThe good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole FranceEnemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
SophoclesNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinHonest 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 BillingsEvil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time becomes good at another time to somebody else.
MenciusIt's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark TwainBy polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
AeschylusAlways kiss your children goodnight even if they're already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest HemingwayThere is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas HuxleyThe 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.
ConfuciusEvery great person is always being helped by everybody, for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John RuskinHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinJudgements 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 MarleyWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph AddisonI 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 AdamsGood can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas AquinasWicked men obey out of fear, good men out of love.
AristotleActive Evil is better than Passive Good.
William BlakeAn inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington IrvingGood is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
William BlakeMan 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.
AristotleFew things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark TwainTrue religion is real living, living with all one's soul with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert EinsteinObserve good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George WashingtonEvery day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy then I'm everything I want to be.
Angelina JolieIn counsel it is good to see dangers, but in execution not to see them unless they be very great.
Francis BaconDoing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see it growth but it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see it damage but it does by days.
BuddhaSo 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.
AristotleIf you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar WildeHe 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 AdamsFor all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas CarlyleAn empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert EinsteinGolf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark TwainIf 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
AristotleIt is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
AristotleThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George BurnsThe very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
PlutarchIf 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 ThackerayHe who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
AristotleThunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark TwainTravel 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 good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis SingerAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund BurkeA 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. ForsterTeachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth, for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.
AristotleTherefore 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.
AristotleHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert SchweitzerOne 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 BabaGood men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past.
Marcus AureliusGood manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Sex 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 KellerYou'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl NightingaleHere's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
Charlie SheenHope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Baltasar GracianWhen 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 ShakespeareThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William JamesI 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.
BuddhaQuarrel? 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 FranklinI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnVirtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
William ShakespeareFor good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
PlatoLife is never fair and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeMany a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William ShakespeareHe that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin FranklinCloquet hated reality, but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
Woody AllenTo be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark TwainHuman felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin FranklinAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaGood nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph AddisonI 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 SinatraIn England, the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here, the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
Andrew JacksonOur 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 RochefoucauldAs from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
BuddhaIt's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
Ray BradburyWhen a man bleeds inwardly it is a dangerous thing for himself, but when he laughs inwardly it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens