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“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
Marilyn Monroe
“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.”
Phyllis Diller
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”
Stephen Hawking
“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.”
Stephen Hawking
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
Horace
“A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.”
Horace
“It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.”
Horace
“Make a good use of the present.”
Horace
“Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.”
Horace
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
Plato
“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
Plato
“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”
Plato
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
Plato
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
Plato
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
Plato
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
Plato
“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
Plato
“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”
Plato
“The good is the beautiful.”
Plato
“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good”
Plato
“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”
Plato
“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.”
Plato
“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
Plato
“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”
Plato