Good Quotes

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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

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

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

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

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.

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

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

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.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

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.

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

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.

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

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

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

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.