Good quotes

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

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.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

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

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

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 damn life and one is as good as the other.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Liars need to have good memories.

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.