974 private quotes tagged good

“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.” — Harry S. Truman

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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.” — Warren Buffett

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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H. L. Mencken

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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” — H. L. Mencken

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“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” — Francis Bacon

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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” — Charles Darwin

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank

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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.” — H. L. Mencken

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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.” — Plato

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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare

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“For good nurture and education, implant good constitutions.” — Plato

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“There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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“We will have to repent in this generation; not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” — Plato

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