Good Man Quotes - Page 16

• The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

  Max Muller

  Flower, Men, Wind

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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.

  Confucius

  Distance, Men, Way

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• Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

  Laozi

  Men, Evil, Instructors

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Done, Manners

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Style, Together, Needs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

  Billy Sunday

  Hell, Preacher, Obtaining

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• ... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent; which is an evil to a wicked man, while to the good it is rest and freedom from evils. 'For death is rest to a man whose way is hidden' (Job 3:23 LXX). And so a good man does not suffer any loss from it.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Jobs, Loss

  John Cassian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)”, p.346, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Men, Doe

  Orson Scott Card (2005). “Enchantment”, p.281, Del Rey

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• To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

  Emily Post

  Friendly, Good Business, Manners

  "Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home".

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• Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

  Plato

  Men, Order, Law

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Gratitude, Rights, Justice

  Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee

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• It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Would Be, Kind

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• For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Suicide, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

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• When good men die their goodness does not perish.

  Euripides

  Death, Men, Doe

  "Temenidae". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Play, Cities

  1957 In the New York Herald Tribune.

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• Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Men, Thinking, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  William Saroyan

  Men, Idiot, Goodness

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I have a lot of girlfriends who are struggling out there to find good men.

  Britt Robertson

  Girlfriend, Struggle, Men

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

  Ben Jonson

  Loss, Men, Unjust

  Ben Jonson, Johanna Procter (1989). “The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1: Sejanus, Volpone, Epicoene Or the Silent Woman”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

  Stephanie Mills

  Boys, Men, Wind

  " CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. April 3, 2002.

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• Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Return, Manners, Social

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.121

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• The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Desire, Natural

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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• The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Women, Occupation, Housekeeping

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• Life must go on, Though good men die.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Death, Men, Goes On

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

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• The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Museums, Hands, Choices

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