974 private quotes tagged good

“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.” — Thomas Paine

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There is no such thing as a good tax.” — Winston Churchill

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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” — Mark Twain

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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.” — Will Rogers

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“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.” — Dalai Lama

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

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“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” — Aristotle

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

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“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” — Ansel Adams

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“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” — Winston Churchill

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“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.” — Dalai Lama

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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill

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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'” — Steven Wright

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“To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” — Mark Twain

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“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” — Yogi Berra

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“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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