Good Quotes

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

My dad was good with actions.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.