Good quotes

“I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.” Ellen DeGeneres

“When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.” Bertrand Russell

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Bertrand Russell

“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.” Bertrand Russell

“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.” Bertrand Russell

“Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.” Bertrand Russell

“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.” Bertrand Russell

“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” Bertrand Russell

“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” Bertrand Russell

“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.” Bill Cosby

“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.” Bill Cosby

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” Ingrid Bergman

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.” William Blake

“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” William Blake

“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.” William Blake

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” Francis Bacon

“Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.” Francis Bacon

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” Francis Bacon

“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.” Francis Bacon

“Acorns were good until bread was found.” Francis Bacon

“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.” Francis Bacon

“Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.” Francis Bacon

“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.” Francis Bacon

“Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.” Francis Bacon

“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.” Francis Bacon

“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.” Francis Bacon

“But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.” David Bowie

“Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.” David Bowie