Good quotes

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.