974 private quotes tagged good

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

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“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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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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“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.” — Oscar Wilde

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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” — Plato

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“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.” — William Shakespeare

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“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.” — Leo Tolstoy

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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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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.” — Karl Marx

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“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.” — William Shakespeare

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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.” — William Shakespeare

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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“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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“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.” — Benjamin Franklin

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