Good Man Quotes - Page 34

• Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Grateful, Forever, Drink

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• Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Circles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.128

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• [A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in a great measure free from vices . . . .

  Algernon Sidney

  Wise, Fall, Men

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• The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Wise, Teaching

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• What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Men, Land

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.79, Vintage

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• Dressing well is a form of good manners.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Monday Morning

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• No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Weakness, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.648, Princeton University Press

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• You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

  John Adams

  Education, Inspirational Life, Men

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• If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Sunlight, Ifs

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• If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Dead Man, Ifs

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• John F. Kennedy says: 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.' I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don't leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Men, Names

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• As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

  Peter Shilton

  People, Needs, Goalkeepers

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• A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

  Philip DeFranco

  Fighting, Men, Great Men

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• I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

  Chris Adrian

  Men, Want, Reason

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• Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Quality, Silent

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• The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

  Steve Goodier

  Heart, Men, Jesus Christ

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• The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Men, Office, States

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• In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Strong, Men, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  Aristotle

  War, Men, Light

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• A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Self, Essence

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• Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Humble, Doe

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.262, Oxford Paperbacks

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• A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Party, Men, Views

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• The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Practice, People, Would Be

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• In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

  Laozi

  Love, Heart, Men

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.79, Booklassic

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• I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song.

  Lady Saw

  Song, Sex, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

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