Good Quotes

Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.

Victor Hugo

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something --not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one. The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch, and many other people who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them. Levin was confirmed in this generalization by observing that his brother did not take questions affecting the public welfare or the question of the immortality of the soul a bit more to heart than he did chess problems, or the ingenious construction of a new machine.

Leo Tolstoy

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Victor Hugo

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

H. L. Mencken

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.

Marcus Aurelius

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Mae West

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Buddha

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Thomas Paine

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Morgan Freeman

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

Mike Tyson

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Publilius Syrus

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela