3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you’re past it.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
3 December 2020 Hugh Sidey A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
3 December 2020 J. P. Morgan A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
3 December 2020 Buddha The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
3 December 2020 Saint Augustine God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
3 December 2020 George Carlin Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
3 December 2020 Confucius He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
3 December 2020 Will Smith If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
3 December 2020 John Quincy Adams Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
