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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
Mark Twain
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
Mark Twain
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”
Mark Twain
“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.”
Lao Tzu
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
Marie Curie
“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”
Hippocrates
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”
Ray Bradbury
“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
George Orwell
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.”
Voltaire
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
Agatha Christie
“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”
Agatha Christie
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
Nelson Mandela
“A good deed never goes unpunished.”
Gore Vidal
“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.”
Charles Dickens
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Pablo Picasso
“The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.”
Pablo Picasso
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Jane Austen
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
Confucius
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
Confucius
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”
Confucius
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
Confucius
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
Confucius
“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”
Dalai Lama
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
Thomas Jefferson
