Good Words

Let thy words be few. - Ecclesiastes 5:2

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Every day above earth is a good day. - Ernest Hemingway

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli

Good order is the foundation of all things. - Edmund Burke

Behind every good woman is a lot of chocolate. - Unknown

He was so good he would pour rose water on a toad. - Douglas Jerrold

All our words from loose using have lost their edge. - Ernest Hemingway

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. - Kimberly Elise

Television is called a medium because anything good on it is rare. - Fred Allen

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. - Mohammed

True words are not always pretty; pretty words are not always true. - Unknown

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. - Bruce Barton

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

Confession may be good for the soul but it is bad for the reputation. - Thomas R Dewar

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. - Anne Baxter

Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. - Sam Rayburn

Next to good judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. - Jean De La Bruyere

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. - Max Lerner

Learn to say "no" to the good so you can say "yes" to the best. - John C Maxwell

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Agatha Christie

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

There's one good thing about snow: it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. - Clyde Moore

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

The word 'hackathon' was born out of 'marathon' for a reason. It's exhausting. - Neil Blumenthal

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Unknown

Sabbatical: A Latin word meaning, 'I quit, but you won’t know it for certain for a year' - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Good is the enemy of great. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great. - Jim Colliere

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths. - Kenneth Cole

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends. - Euripides

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. - Edward Wallis Hoch

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla