Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Fun is good.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death, can erase our good deeds.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

The good shine from afar like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear even when near, like arrows shot into the night.

It is such broad-minded mothers who are needed today. Good mothers are more essential than good wives.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction, with humility gains good fortune.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he has all other goods.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Alongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.

Watch?? I'm gonna pray Man! Know any good religions?

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money, or killed by their courage.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

No one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

It's always good to have more rest in the perfect-case scenario. But I'm willing to do whatever it takes.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven, the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Four legs good two legs bad.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally their heroes were good through and through their villains wholly bad.

If you can't make it good at least make it look good.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.

Love is the joy of the good the wonder of the wise the amazement of the Gods.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving it, for by spending it in luxury you make them exert industry whereas by giving it you keep them idle.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Papa potatoes poultry prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Honestly I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside where it functions best.

They didn't want it good they wanted it Wednesday.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology, but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight, and focused attention.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts not on marble.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty bodily or mental.

Good things when short are twice as good.

Of all the home remedies a good wife is best.

I've never seen a system as good as Coke has now.

He that is good will infallibly become better and he that is bad will as certainly become worse, for vice virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

It is veneer rouge aestheticism art museums new theaters etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football kindness and jazz bands.

Oh yeah? That's pretty good company -- excellent company.

Now let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits I'm not your president. You have that president today.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian unless the latter too be lovers in disguise.

Well if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Yet taught by time my heart has learned to glow for other's good and melt at other's woe.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report so I can even consider reading it

I have no other view than to promote the public good and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition which is sorrow for sin together with a purpose of amendment, confession of sins without any omission, and satisfaction by means of good works.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

The youth of an art is like the youth of anything else its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger but we care less about it.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy that would satisfy me.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there and no chain of reasoning no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant will win your case for you.

It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

There's always some aftermath good and bad makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy for anything we choose to do.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages personal relations and multi-tasking but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

We seldom find any person of good sense except those who share our opinions.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

If there's any message to my work it is ultimately that it's OK to be different that it's good to be different that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different behaves different talks different is a different color.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

You may call God love you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

The bad gains respect through imitation the good loses it especially in art.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Tomorrow is nothing today is too late, the good lived yesterday

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there is they will not let you have it.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company comforts and inspires.

You will launch many projects but have time to finish only a few. So think plan develop launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

When I'm good I'm very very good but when I'm bad I'm better.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Man is born passionate of body but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

As for charity it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned and the ultimate consequence to the general good are apt to be at complete war with one another.

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep or I'd be rotten to the core.

Wisdom has its root in goodness not goodness its root in wisdom.

Have fortitude and self-control, use good and sweet-words, and examine each act of yours on the touch-stone of My preference.

The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality in good manners and acts of service.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness, even virtue even beauty is mysterious.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff and if it's commercially successful that's a good sign that it's being heard.

Be good be serviceable, Be useful be kind and Be God-fearing.

The vast majority who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounces it.

Do your little bit of good where you are, its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Keep good company - that is go to the Louvre.

God wears Truth the good seek Truth and the bad are rescued by Truth, Truth liberates, Truth is power, Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness.

When you meet someone better than yourself turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

I think I always had a musicality and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating, there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

It was a good month. We were able to win more ballgames than we lost. We built ourselves a pretty good cushion going into the following one. Hopefully next month will be just as productive for us.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body, it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Happiness? A good cigar a good meal a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman, it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music

[Not as long as Armstrong is riding. Asked at the end of the second week whether he thought he was] too much of a force for the Tour's own good ... I don't know. But I know that I love the race. I love everything that it stands for. It is what they pay me to do. This is my job. They say 'Lance we want you to win the Tour de France.' That's what the team wants what the sponsors want what cycling fans in America want what cancer survivors around the world want.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill That maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few stones upon it.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

My native Land - Good Night!

Love always brings difficulties that is true but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

It is good to love the unknown.

If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains, if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

Edible adj.: 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.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.

We did a good job of digging in defensively. We just tried to keep them uncomfortable. Try to take them out of their sets and try and take them out a little bit of the things they like to do.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies which cause good or evil times and which have much veneration but no rest.

Most of us regard good luck as our right and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees books, in the running brooks sermons, in stones and good in everything.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending, because the older you get the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day, the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion and now well technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities our families our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America America. In our best days we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities large and small.

Happiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well clothed well housed well and educated up to a good standard and employed under comfortable conditions with no injury to health or security.

See in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of others, see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others to console others and to encourage others along the spiritual path.

The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature, and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

A car is useless in New York - essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof, it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Once kick the world and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

I think their experience kicked in and overwhelmed us a bit tonight ... We kept fighting back and did some great things with our execution. Our inexperience on defense hurt us as they were spreading the floor extremely well and getting good looks at the basket.

Only government can take perfectly good paper cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.

The less we deserve good fortune the more we hope for it.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

Richard Nixon is a no good lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and if he ever caught himself telling the truth he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

For if a good speaker never so eloquent does not see into the fact and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more though. It's good for them.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents 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.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script and they pay me enough I'll do it.

Life's pretty good and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate after all.

Be kind to your mother-in-law but pay for her board at some good hotel.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Happiness is secured through virtue, it is a good attained by man's own will.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil busy workshops easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place

A market is never saturated with a good product but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror and you keep making faces all your life.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I didn't know that kid had that big of (a heart). I think it was good.

I think you have to represent your city and your organization. Tracy's been a good friend of mine for a long long time and I look forward to him putting on a good show.

If I'd had good discipline I might have gone into music.

God gives everything, whatever we get is His grace. You have no right to judge whether what you get is good or bad.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is if a man weighs it rightly rather liberal of another man's goods than his own

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign even in the wizarding world.

Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue or if there be several human excellences or virtues in conformity with the best and most perfect among them

We got some pretty good looks down the stretch ... They didn't go down for us.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

When it comes to jobs President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

That's a good astute observation. I wanted the shot. I always want the ball in my hands. They had me covered. I wish I could have gotten a better screen on the play. But Luke had a good look in the corner.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others the more he benefits himself The more he gives to others the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden and I go 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

If the people are happy united wealthy and powerful we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

Truthful words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive, persuasive words are not good.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

I read good. I was an English major.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Be true to the game because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game and in some ways that's about life too.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

We're playing good basketball. We feel like we can carry it over into the playoffs.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever, no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself, no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good, but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Happiness is the highest good being, a realization and perfect practice of virtue which some can attain, while others have little or none of it

It is not a God just and good but a devil under the name of God that the Bible describes.

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Like every other good thing in this world leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately however it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

There are no rules for good photographs there are only good photographs.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Riches are a good handmaid but the worst mistress

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong, he has a thousand who has overcome it.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions and if the road to hell is paved with them then it's a pretty good detour.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will I salute the young state and wish it well.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book If art doesn't make us better then what on earth is it for.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

I'm embracing many different things but it's all feel-good.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

A nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty nasty unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students and turns them into prunes.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Of all that is good sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals good bad and otherwise.

Good company is important it helps to cultivate good qualities.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking, as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families, for our joy, our support in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

A man is as good as he has to be and a woman as bad as she dares.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa, there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

If you would have a good wife marry one who has been a good daughter.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well good as new.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza let alone cooking it.

To all to each a fair good-night and pleasing dreams and slumbers light.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The higher the sun ariseth the less shadow doth he cast, even so the greater is the goodness the less doth it covet praise, yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Well real estate is always good as far as I'm concerned.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

In fact just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon the Badlands the Goodlands the Mediocrelands the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.