Good Quotes - page 21

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. (Kurt Vonnegut)
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation-is that good for the world? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. View quote
Dan Quayle
The good conscience is an invention of the devil. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. View quote
Stephen Leacock
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. (Paul Theroux)
To do nothing is also a good remedy. View quote
Hippocrates
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. View quote
Bill Gates
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. View quote
Wendell Phillips
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. View quote
Vince Lombardi
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. View quote
George Horace Lorimer
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. View quote
Salvador Dalí
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. View quote
Frida Kahlo
Look to your health and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy. View quote
Izaak Walton
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
In art the best is good enough. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb