Good Words

Fine words do not produce food. - Nigeria Proverb

A good man is always a beginner. - Martial

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. - Mae West

Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh

BANG - A four-letter Italian word for good-bye. - Archie Bunker

Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse. - Danish Proverb

The cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good, spit it out. - Unknown

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. - Henrik Ibsen

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

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

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

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for "doesn't hunt well." - Paul Harvey

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. - D.H. Lawrence

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it. - Croft M. Pentz

A good way I know to find happiness is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. - Josh Billings

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

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

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. - William Faulkner

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs. - L.M. Montgomery

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. - Louise Erdrich

A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter. - WC Fields

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

Any problem that you can't solve with a good guitar is either unsolvable or isn't a problem. - Unknown

All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff. - Betsey Johnson

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew. - George Bernard Shaw

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. - Ernest Hemingway

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. - Ted Williams

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practiced for a good many years. - Prince Philip

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. - Terry Pratchett

A car hits a Jewish man. The paramedic rushes over and says, "Are you comfortable?" The guy says, "I make a good living." - Henny Youngman

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