Good Words

No good deed goes unpunished. - Clare Booth Luce

Fine words do not produce food. - Nigeria Proverb

Wine is my favorite 4 letter word. - Unknown

To a good appetite there is no bad bread. - Spain Proverb

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

When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates. - Tal Ben-Shahar

That man is truly good who knows his own dark places. - Beowulf

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

I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad. - Nancy Carell

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. - Spanish Proverb

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. - Franklin P Adams

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

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. - Leo Rosten

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct. - Marcel Marceau

You can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. - Paulo Coelho

Sometimes your best feelings are found in the words which you type and never send. - Unknown

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

The more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live. - Ravi Zacharias

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Agatha Christie

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. - Rabindranath Tagore

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart. - Joe Chernov

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

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. - Abu Bakr

Having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. - Nick Lachey

Every leap year I like to jump. It’s a good way to get my daily exercise in every four years. - Jarod Kintz

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future. - Alexa Von Tobel

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Desmond Tutu

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Mark Twain

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you. - Erno Rubik

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, no perhaps moral integrity. - Eric Hoffer

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long. - Rachael Ray

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. - Steven Wright