Good Man Quotes - Page 26

• Association with women is the basis of good manners.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Association, Manners

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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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• 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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• Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

  Arthur Keith

  Christian, Men, Race

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

  Anna Kendrick

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "What Makes a Gentleman?". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, End Of The World, Ends

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.204, Random House

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• It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

  John Irving

  Men, Needs

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• So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.

  Sharon Shinn

  Kings, Stupid, Men

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• My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Husband, Believe, Writing

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• When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wise, Dog, Men

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• In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Moving, Men, Years

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• The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Incredibles, Very Good

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• If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

  Jeff Garlin

  Maniacs, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Jeff Greene". "Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Wire. Season 1", (2000– ).

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• When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Men, Evil, Moral

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• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, True Or False, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

  Leona Lewis

  Wise, Children, Dad

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

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• It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

  Louis Armstrong

  Men, Feel Good, Tea

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• It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Powerful, Good Life, Hard Times

  Bill O'Reilly (2013). “Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

  Mika Brzezinski

  Jobs, Men, Odds

  "Don’t Forget To Have Kids" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

  Bonnie Tyler

  Wise, Fighting, Men

  Song: Holding Out for a Hero, 1986

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Men, Waiting

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• "If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Winning, Heaven, Succeed

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.332, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

  Euripides

  Character, Men, Doe

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

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• There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Survivor, Benefits

  "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments".

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• Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Men, Support

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