Good Man Quotes - Page 8

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong. If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.

I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others. There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness. These are the worst of all.

The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.