Good Quotes - page 7

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Henry S. Haskins)
Good order is the foundation of all good things. View quote
Edmund Burke
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. View quote
W. H. Auden
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. View quote
Steven Weinberg
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. View quote
Norman Mailer
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. View quote
George S. Patton
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. View quote
E. M. Forster
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes." View quote
Steven Wright
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. (Mae West)
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. View quote
Beatrix Potter
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. View quote
Alice Walker
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. View quote
George Washington
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. View quote
Jimmy Carter
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. View quote
Ken Kesey
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. (Woody Allen)
A good conscience is a continual feast. View quote
Robert Burton
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. View quote
Edith Wharton