Good quotes

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

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.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.