Good Man Quotes - Page 10

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

A good man never dies.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Good manners require space and time.

What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate.