It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself just the fact that I was breathing.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide and altogether beyond his hopes meet with the good hap to be murdered.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

I tell ya if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved -- to teach it probably ... Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there ... a good language gene which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

I am not interested in power for power's sake but I'm interested in power that is moral that is right and that is good.

The good is the beautiful.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles but a good deal about their acts.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

So for a good old gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up leaving more territory more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there giving it their best.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively if life hasn't been good to you so far which given your current circumstances seems more likely consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

Nothing is so contagious as example, and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that in the dinner the sweets come last.

Whatever acts a good or bad man may do the fruits thereof follow him and will never stop pursuing him.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

If all men cannot be brought to the same opinion on morals and religion it is at least worthwhile to give them good reasons for as much as they can be persuaded to accept

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

The World is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices instead of supplying goods and services.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards but of playing a poor hand well.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power the will to power power itself in man.

Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Are you astonished Aulus that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too the negation of dharmas. This corollary has elsewhere been illustrated by the simile of medicine which can heal any ill

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

We are justified in enforcing good morals for they belong to all mankind, but we are not justified in enforcing good manners for good manners always mean our own manners.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light especially in the NBA ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.

Poverty of goods is easily cured, poverty of soul impossible.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot the drama within the shot the texture... It's palpable.

It is very important to generate a good attitude a good heart as much as possible. From this happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.

If people really liked to work we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

What is needed today is that we should lead a life of good quality. The fostering of sterling character and good conduct is the need of the world. Once we have greater numbers of such people of good quality the country and the world will become prosperous and peaceful.

It feels good to be mentioned among the elite players who have ever played the game.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment by every man of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

It was just a special moment. We're honored to be a part of it really. This is truly a historical event and we felt like we came out here and gave them a good show.

I feel good I feel strong and I've had a high quality three weeks since my last race

People write negatives things cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them doesn't sell.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.

The good old days when each idea had an owner are gone forever.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune, to keep him is a blessing.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

If you real desire is to be good there is no need to wait for the money before you do it, you can do it now this very moment and just where you are.

It made me feel good. We've been through so many wars together. Now just be able to move on try to do the best for this team wish him the best in South Beach. I think it's good for the city of Los Angeles good for the NBA good for the youth being Martin Luther King Day.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

Well I screwed it up real good didn't I?

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant I could perform in heels.

However things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

To me to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible paying the highest wages possible.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

The fact is that people are good Give people affection and security and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously that I am actually a good playwright and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

If a man suffers ill let it be without shame, for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Our spacing was good which made it very difficult to corral me. When they did we were able to swing the ball and get open opportunities for everybody else.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

The Vedas are the oldest literary creations of man. Now the word 'literature' is used to connote writings scribbled while eager to find something to spend the time hanging on hand. They have no inner worth or significance, they destroy the traits of good character in the reader and implant bad attitudes and habits, they do not adhere to the path of Truth.

By having a reverence for life we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good deep and alive.

Events will take their course it is no good of being angry at them, he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

It feels good to finally get one of these close games.

Friendship like the immortality of the soul is too good to be believed.

Good breeding differs if at all from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

If you go to work on your goals your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I live on good soup not on fine words.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

We're playing good basketball but the playoffs are all about preparation. We're just going to go out there and play.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying either at home or abroad, they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Again men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

For goodness sake will they hear will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans too.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason, by the latter one necessarily shunned also according to a principle of reason.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?"

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking but knees are nearly always not.

Riches are a good handmaiden but the worst mistress.

In art the best is good enough.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets for example is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm, then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The more we come out and do good to others the more our hearts will be purified and God will be in them.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time, in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time.

A good beginning makes a good end.

Death hangs over thee While thou still live while thou may do good

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

I should many a good day have blown my brains out but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law, and even then if I could have been certain to haunt her - but I won't dwell upon these trifling family matters

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.

In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

I care not whether a man is good or evil, all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness / And put on intellect.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions for it makes the other party stick the less.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least good or bad.

Most people are not particularly good at anything

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

IF you feel you must have something to be happy pray to God God you have the responsibility to keep me healthy happy good and intelligent, give me this thing which I believe is necessary for my happiness, but if you think I am wrong give me whatever you think best . God will never desert His obligation. He will feed you and foster you.

Husbands never become good, they merely become proficient.

Despite everything I believe that people are really good at heart.

I believe in using words not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Friendship between equals flourishes service under a king is respectable it is good to be business-minded in public dealings and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.

A discontented man is as bad as lost. A man without love is as good as dead.

Down on your knees and thank heaven fasting for a good man's love.

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women and millions like them across America to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket I said 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly what we're going to do.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

As for doing good, that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and strange as it may seem am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

The good opinion of mankind like the lever of Archimedes with the given fulcrum moves the world.

A full-grown manatee which can weigh more than 1 000 pounds looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Well for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Therefore with an eye to the public good I shall speak that which when understood will lead to an understanding of things in their proper perspective.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Get correct views of life and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly to do good and when summoned away to leave without regret.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect, it is too exciting.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

The more tranquil a man becomes the greater is his success his influence his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

We've actually gotten better musically over the years ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

Good actions ennoble us we are the sons of our own deeds.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first therefore to seek them blindfold and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest as a worm to a toad a toad to a snake a snake to a pig a pig to a man and a man to a worm.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

And finally I twist my heart round again so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be and could be if there weren't any other people living in the world.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

As to 'Don Juan ' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing, it may be bawdy but is it not good English? It may be profligate but is it not life is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government or the people would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out that aspect of TARP that's what happened.

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is he is a good man. If not he must be starved.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

I've heard youngsters use some of George Lucas' terms -- "the Force" and "the dark side." So it must be hitting somewhere. It's a good sound teaching I would say.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it else it is none.

Life has been good.

All acts of living become bad by ten things and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue and three evils of the mind.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love therefore is its own reward.

A good style must first of all be clear. It must . . . be appropriate.

Whatever happened to the good ole days when children worked in factories?

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

In the final analysis the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions no longer asking why something happened but asking how we will respond what we intend to do now that it happened.

There are two great forces. God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence and many a good one by chastisement therefore beat your son as well as your pupil, never indulge them. (""Spare the rod and spoil the child."")

Less is only more where more is no good.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood the source of evil one and one of good, from thence the cup of mortal man he fills blessings to these to those distributes ills, to most he mingles both.

It feels good. It lets me know they appreciate what I do out there on the floor.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

There may be good but there are no pleasant marriages.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first, because one cannot hold out that proportion

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Make a good use of the present.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church, it is a goodly Christian weapon.

There is the good and the bad the great and the low the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

We are each made for goodness love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If your life had lyrics would they be any good?

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

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."

The wise having hearkened to the Good Law become serene like unto a deep calm and crystal-clear lake.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.

George Martin he's very good at a very sort of lush sweet arrangement.

We needed a challenge like this ... I think we did a good job keeping our poise when they jumped out to an early lead. Everybody just kind of stayed with it.

Twice and thrice over as they say good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

It's always good to be underestimated.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs or a bee makes honey or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

Those men who are happy in this world who are generous towards their relatives kind to strangers indifferent to the wicked loving to the good shrewd in their dealings with the base frank with the learned courageous with enemies humble with elders and stern with the wife.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest except such as admire us.

Whatever good things people say of us they tell us nothing new.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

It was really good for us to be able to rest.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who however has never learned how to walk forward.

To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I know you very well and I know you need a good English teacher.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease, a want of all laudable ambition of taste for good company or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish, read the newspaper watch the weather and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking but rather ideas If the ideas are good cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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.

And above all things never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are as standing in a dictionary how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families for they never forsake them either at the beginning the middle or the end.

Be a good animal true to your animal instincts.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has for good or evil happened to us.

Hear good things see good do good think good then you get the Grace of God as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray and thus acquire experience.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt however beautiful or joyful they may be or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

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

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea because we have heard it and because our faith tells us so that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls or who dwells within them or how precious they are those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Those disputing contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.