Good Man Quotes - Page 14

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

History is littered with dead good men