974 private quotes tagged good

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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”— Mark Twain
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“There is no such thing as a good tax.”— Winston Churchill
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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”— Ansel Adams
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“A good deed never goes unpunished.”— Gore Vidal
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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”— Walt Whitman
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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”— Thomas Paine
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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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“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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“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”— Frank Zappa
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“Every good painter paints what he is.”— Jackson Pollock
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“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”— Plato
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“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”— William Shakespeare
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“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”— Thomas Paine
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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”— Rabindranath Tagore
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“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”— Plato
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“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.”— Nelson Mandela
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“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”— Thomas A. Edison