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There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

Aquinas St. Thomas 1225-1274

Summa Theologicae

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe.

Aurelius Marcus 121-180

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Bailey Philip James 1816-1902

Festus

America, thou half-brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land.

Bellow Saul 1915-

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Benson A.C. 1862-1925

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Bentley Eric

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

The Bible

New Testament: St Luke ch.4 v.27

Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

The Bible

Old Testament: Proverds ch.17 v.22

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

Billings Josh 1818-1885

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

Blake William 1757-1827

Jerusalem

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

Bunyan John 1628-1888

The Pilgrim's Progress

Hanging is too good for him, said Mr Cruelty.

Burke Edmund 1729-1797

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Campbell Bushrod H.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

Carew Thomas c.1595-1640

„Inscription on Tomb of Lady Mary Wentworth"

Good to the poor, to kindred dear,
To servants kind, to friendship clear,
To nothing but herself severe.

Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936

The word „good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Coles D.L.

The age of strong belief is over, the good is no longer always very good.

Cromwell Oliver 1599-1658

(addressing the Rump Parliament)

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart,I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Defoe Daniel 1660-1731

„Character of the late Dr S. Annesley"

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.

Douglas Norman 1868-1952

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

Dryden John 1631-1700

The Hind and the Panther

For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

Dryden John 1631-1700

(translation of Juvenal: Satires)

Look round the habitable world! How few
Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.

Euripides c.485-406 BC

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Fuller Thomas 1608-1661

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Fuller Thomas 1608-1661

Great and good are seldom the same man.

George II King 1683-1760

We are come for your good, for all your goods.

Gladstone W.E. 1809-1898

Ideal perfection is not the true basis of English legislation. We look at the attainable; we look at the practical; and we have too much English sense to be drawn away by those sanguine delineations of what might possibly be attained in Utopia, from a path which promises to enable us to effect great good for the people of England.

Gracian Baltasar 1601-1658

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

Grellet Stephen 1773-1855

(attributed)

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature,let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grossmith George and Weedon 1847-1912 and 1854-1919

The Diary of a Nobody
What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

Halla Sven

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

Heller Joseph 1923-

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22, I'm tempted to reply, „Who has?"

Herold Don

A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.

Hippocrates c.460-377 BC

Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Boswell - Life

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

Jowett Benjamin 1817-1893

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Kant Immanuel 1724-1804

Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals

Nothing in the world - indeed nothing even beyond the world - can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification
except a good will.

Long Huey 1893-1935

(attributed)

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882

(composed for his second daughter)

There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead,
When she was good
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Longworth Alice Roosevelt

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Loos Anita 1893-1981

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

She always believed in the old adage, „Leave them while you're looking good."

Lyttelton George 1709-1773

„Advice to a Lady"

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman's noblest station is retreat.

McIntyre Leslie M.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.

Mackintosh Sir James 1765-1832

Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Macmillan Sir Harold 1894-1986

Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.

Machiavelli Niccolo 1469-1527

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Mill John Stuart 1806-1873

On Liberty

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercesed over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to pevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

Miller Max 1895-1963

The Max Miller Blue Book

There was a little girl who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead;
When she was good she was very very good,
And when she was bad she was very very popular.

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