974 private quotes tagged good

“It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” — Pablo Picasso

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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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“The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.” — Plutarch

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“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.” — Plato

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“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.” — Plato

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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.” — George Orwell

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“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” — William Shakespeare

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“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Acorns were good until bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

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“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” — H. L. Mencken

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“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.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.” — Albert Camus

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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank

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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” — Michelangelo

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

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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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