Good Quotes

"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The society of women is the element of good manners."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All good things are wild, and free."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. "
-Voltaire

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
-Voltaire

"Be not simply good - be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
-Bob Marley

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
-Sir George Savile

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
-Mark Twain

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number."
-Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion."
-Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
-Abraham Lincoln

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
-Abraham Lincoln

"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."
-Mark Twain

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
-Mark Twain

"Golf is a good walk, ruined."
-Mark Twain

"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
-Mark Twain

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
-Mark Twain

"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."
-Mark Twain