It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
The ‘good old times’ – all times when old are good.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.
Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
If it were better, it wouldn’t be as good.
