Good Quotes

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

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 you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

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.

Edible - 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.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

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

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.