Good Quotes

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

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

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.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

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

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

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

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.

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

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Fun is good.

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

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

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

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

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

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