“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
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“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.”
“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.”
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
“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.”
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”
“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.”
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.”
“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”
“Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.”
“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”
“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”
“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.”
“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.”
“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.”
“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.”
“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
“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.”