Good Man Quotes - Page 32

• God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Giving, Paradise

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1983). “Freedom Or Death: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

  Diogenes

  Men, Boys, Sparta

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Men

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

  Antisthenes

  Men, States, Doomed

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),

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• The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.

  Robert Briffault

  Character, Men, Evil

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• A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Stuff, Fool

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• Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

  Diogenes

  Boys, Men, Saws

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

  Aristotle

  Men, Needs, Citizens

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.84, Aristotle

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• I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Reading, Use, Language

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, Secret, Management

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

  Plutarch

  Men, Battle, Leisure

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Lives and Writings”

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• The love of wine is a good man's failing.

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Men, Failing

  Aristophanes (2004). “The Wasps (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.8, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Men, People, Littles

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

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• The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Husband, Lying

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.32, e-artnow

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• I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Fall, Men, Self

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 21, 1895.

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• I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Doors, Snow, Effort

  George Leigh Mallory's diary entry (May 27, 1924) as quoted in James Ramsey Ullman "Kingdom of Adventure: Everest" (p. 124), 1947.

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• We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Song, Stars, Heart

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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• Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Soul, Deeds

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

  Franz Boas

  Ethical Standards, Way, Modesty

  Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.

  Jeff Cooper

  Military, War, Men

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 1, No. 6, September 1993.

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• There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Men, People, President

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• Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

  Benjamin Graham

  Average, Management, Produce

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Evil

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 10, April 12, 1990.

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• I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Example, Waste, Mathematics

  "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work". Book by G. H. Hardy, 1940.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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