“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
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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.”
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.”
“The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.”
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”
“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”
“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”
“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
“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.”
“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”
“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
“What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.”
“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”
“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”