Good Man Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Law, Made

  Samuel Richardson (1754). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: in a series of letters”, p.45

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• This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Country, Party, Men

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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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• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Problem, Manners

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• Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

  Adam Clarke

  Death, Father, Dark

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

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• 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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• Forget love. Try good manners.

  Rebecca Wells

  Trying, Forget, Manners

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Morning, Important, Manners

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.26, Yearling

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• Hanks is a good man, and he produced the "John Adams" series as well. He does good work. But I'm more worried about a Tom Hanks when we're at war against radical Islam than I am against a caricature like Sean Penn. He's a completely marginalized soul.

  Bill O'Reilly

  War, Men, Soul

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Death, Angel, Men

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.305

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• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.

  Anton Myrer

  Men, Generosity, Challenges

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• There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Lone Ranger, Mask

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• In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

  Russell Brand

  Police, England, Manners

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Opposites

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• When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Fun, Men

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Heart, Men, Terrible

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Men, Alive, World

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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Science, Technology

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.26, Knopf

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• Gently - so have good men taught -
  Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
  Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
  Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
  Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Grief, Journey

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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

  Fanny Jackson Coppin

  People, Manners, Good Manners

  Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

  Richard Branson

  Mentoring, Believer, Huge

  Sir Richard Branson (2014). “The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead”, p.160, Random House

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• I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

  Lewis Carroll

  Poetry, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

  Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.197, e-artnow

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