Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. – William Shakespeare
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. – Oscar Wilde
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. – Mahatma Gandhi
The good man is the friend of all living things. – Mahatma Gandhi
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. – Thomas Jefferson
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. – Thomas Jefferson
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. – Aristotle
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. – Hunter S. Thompson
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. – Thomas Jefferson
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. – Thomas Jefferson
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. – Marilyn Monroe
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. – Mahatma Gandhi
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
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. – Thomas Paine
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. – Oscar Wilde
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. – Plato
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
