Good quotes

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.” Terry Pratchett

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” Thomas Alva Edison

“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” Henry Ford

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” Heraclitus

“To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.” Heraclitus

“Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.” Steve Jobs

“I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.” Steve Jobs

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.” Martin Luther King

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.” Martin Luther King

“A liar should have a good memory.” Quintilian

“ By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.” Socrates

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” Socrates

“ The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” Socrates

“ Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” Socrates

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.” Socrates

“ One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.” Kurt Vonnegut

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.” Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.” Lin Yutang

“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.” Lin Yutang

“And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.” Isaac Asimov

“ One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” Robert Anson Heinlein

“ They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.” Robert Anson Heinlein

“Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.” Plato

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” Plato

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.” Woody Allen

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

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.” Mark Twain

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” Mark Twain