1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A good husband makes a good wife.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

A hard man is good to find.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Any good music must be an innovation.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

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.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Better is the enemy of good.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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.

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.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Fun is good.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

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.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

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.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

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.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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.

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

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.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

In art the best is good enough.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.