Good Man Quotes - Page 6

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Good manners are never passé.

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.