Good Quotes

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

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

A hard man is good to find.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

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

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.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

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.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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

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.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.