Good Quotes

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

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.