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“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.”— Plato
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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Necessity never made a good bargain.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”— Elbert Hubbard
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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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“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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“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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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”— Ansel Adams
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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”— Albert Camus
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“It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.”— Ronald Reagan
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“The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.”— Plutarch
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“Acorns were good until bread was found.”— Francis Bacon
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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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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”— Aldous Huxley
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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”— Michelangelo
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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”— George Eliot
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“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”— Edmund Burke
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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”— Sun Tzu
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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