Good Quotes

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The good is the beautiful.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

He who stops being better stops being good.