Good Man Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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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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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Book, Reading, Men

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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 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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• Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Men, Self

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

  Aristotle

  Good Life, Spring, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2113, Princeton University Press

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• If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

  Aristotle

  Men, Perfect, Citizens

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

  Aristotle

  Men, Perfect, Citizens

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The society of women is the element of good manners.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Elements, Manners, Good Manners

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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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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• When good men die their goodness does not perish.

  Euripides

  Death, Men, Doe

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

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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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