Good Words

A good speaker makes a good liar. - German Proverb

The good lawyer is the great salesman. - Janet Reno

Silence is better than unmeaning words. - Pythagoras

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. - Edit Sitwell

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe

Because everyone knows that good is good, bad exists. - Lao Tzu

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

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

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

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense. - Edgar Watson Howe

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. - Don Herold

Experience is always a good teacher, but she often has dull pupils. - Unknown

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx

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

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. - Cavett Robert

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. - Olive Schreiner

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

If one glass of wine is good for you, just imagine what a whole bottle could do! - Unknown

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. - Elbert Hubbard

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. - Nancy Astor

Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as someone else. - William Saroyan

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels. - Jennifer Winget

I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing. - Aldous Huxley

The curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song - its that they know them all. - Susan Dooley

The best portion of a good man's life are the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you're an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that will never happen. - James Russell Lowell

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

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. - Paul Simon

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off. - Pat Paulsen

Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people's drama, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys. - Polish Proverb

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good. - Sirio Maccioni