Good Words

Be not a slave of words. - Thomas Carlyle

There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin

Cursing the weather is never good farming. - English Proverb

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

Good things, when short, are twice as good. - Tom Stoppard

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

Tattletale: Someone with a good sense of rumor - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. - Niccolo Machiavelli

An apology is the best way to have the last word. - Unknown

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. - Dr. Seuss

A good listener is usually thinking about something else. - Kin Hubbard

If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans. - Yiddish Proverb

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. - John Stuart Mill

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle

When we don't have the words, chocolate can speak volumes. - Joan Bauer

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin F Tupper

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin

Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. - C S Lewis

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go - e e cummings

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. - Unknown

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. - Thomas R Insel

Alone, you are only as good as your reach; you must join hands with others. - Joe Segal

Your balance may be recovered when you trip, but not your words when they slip. - Unknown

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. - Dag Hammarskjold

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. - Unknown

If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. - E.B. White

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. - Steven Wright

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. - Joe Namath