“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”
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“When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.”
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.”
“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”
“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.”
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.”
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.”
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
“And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
“A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.”
“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.”
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
“This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.”
“Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.”
“If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.”
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.”
“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”