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“Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
Richard Bach
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
Yogi Berra
“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”
Robert Browning
“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
Robert Browning
“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
Robert Browning
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.”
George Burns
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.”
George Burns
“If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.”
George Burns
“It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.”
George Burns
“You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
William Seward Burroughs
“Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
Ambrose Bierce
“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.”
George Washington Carver
“Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.”
Edward Estlin Cummings
“The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
Josh Billings
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
Joseph Addison
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
Thomas Aquinas
“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”
Charles Bukowski
“Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”
Democritus
“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
John Dewey
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
Baltasar Gracian
“The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.”
Mitch Hedberg
“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel de Montaigne
“A good example is far better than a good precept.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
Christopher Morley
