Good Words

Be not a slave of words. - Thomas Carlyle

You win with good people. - Don Shula

Make good habits and they will make you. - Parks Cousins

The last birthday that's any good is 23. - Andy Rooney

An honest man's word is as good as his bond. - Cervantes

If you can't be a good example, be a warning. - Unknown

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

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

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. - Mel Brooks

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. - Milton Berle

Sometimes it takes a really good fall to know where you stand. - Hayley Williams

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

Actions prove who someone is; words just prove who they want to be. - Unknown

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

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. - William M Thackeray

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. - Jackie Kennedy

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. - J P Morgan

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier

What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere? "Hold my purse." - Francois Morency

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. - Eckhart Tolle

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap? - Phyllis Diller

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. - Robert Browning

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

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

Here lies my past.
Good-bye I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids.
I wouldn’t have missed it. - Ogden Nash

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world. - Kary Mullis

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

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. - Theodore Roosevelt

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. - Leonore Fleischer

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasow

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined, and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. - Lady Bird Johnson