Good Words

A good cry lightens the heart. - Yiddish Proverb

Do not go gentle into that good night. - Dylan Thomas

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. - L.M. Montgomery

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. - Martial

There are tones of voices that mean more than words. - Robert Frost

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

Don't think your condition is good enough; KNOW IT! - Unknown

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

To enter life by way of the vagina is as good a way as any. - Henry Miller

Some people are so heavily minded that they are no earthly good. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. - Denis Diderot

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

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower. - Bruce Feirstein

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. - Ludwig van Beethoven

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, and had a Good Friday. - Billy Crystal

Bad habits are like a good bed; easy to get into but difficult to get out of. - Unknown

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. - Max Beerbohm

If we take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjold

Like the Good Book says, "Let him who is without sin be the rolling stone." - Archie Bunker

Virus: a Latin word used by doctors to mean, "Your guess is as good as mine." - Unknown

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. - Mark Twain

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D Eisenhower

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. - Groucho Marx

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? - Gerald Barzan

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was. - Rex Harrison

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. - Wilson Mizner

I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet. - Phyllis Diller

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength. - John F Kennedy

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

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but the careers of those who work for him. - H.M.S. Burns

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Ed Sullivan

I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. - Donald Trump

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. - Flora Edwards

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

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. - Richard B. Sheridan

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller