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3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

3 December 2020 Frida Kahlo

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

3 December 2020 Plato

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

3 December 2020 Rene Descartes

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

3 December 2020 E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

3 December 2020 John Mayer

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart… good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it’s done.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

3 December 2020 Lindsay Lohan

Say ‘no’ more than ‘yes,’ and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.

3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

3 December 2020 Plato

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

3 December 2020 Thomas Merton

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

3 December 2020 Bob Riley

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

3 December 2020 William Blake

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

3 December 2020 Xun Zi

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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