Good Quotes

Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

Peter Brimelow

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

Susannah

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

Sherman Alexie

But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.

Durante degli Alighieri

Charity is the root of all good works.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

Bryant McGill

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Philip James Bailey

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Francis Bacon

To do good is difficult. One who does good first does something hard to do. I have done many good deeds, and, if my sons, grandsons and their descendants up to the end of the world act in like manner, they too will do much good. But whoever amongst them neglects this, they will do evil. Truly, it is easy to do evil.

Ashoka the Great

To be able to keep a mother-in-law in the country while he lives in Paris, and vice versa, is a piece of good fortune which a husband too rarely meets with.

Honor de Balzac

Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

Jennifer Beals

You can have the golden ruledo unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step fartherwhere you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Jennifer Beals

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams

O my boy! he who doeth good shall meet with good; and he who doeth evil shall meet with evil, for the Lord requiteth a man according to the measure of his work.

Ahiqar

The opposite of "good" is not "bad", but "well meant".

Albrecht, Richard

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

Matsuo Bash

There iz only one good substitute for the endearments ov a sister, and that iz the endearments ov sum other pheller's sister.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Every man should kno sumthing ov law--if he knows enuff tew keep out ov it, he iz a prety good lawyer.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

If we giv up our minds tew little things we never shall be fit for big ones. I knew a man once who could ketch more flies with one swoop ov his hand than enny boddy else could, and he want good at ennything else.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Wendell Berry

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

William Blake

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