The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde
When good Americans die they go to Paris. – Oscar Wilde
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. – William Shakespeare
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. – William Shakespeare
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. – George S. Patton
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. – Mahatma Gandhi
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. – Oscar Wilde
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
Paris is always a good idea. – Audrey Hepburn
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
Be not simply good – be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. – Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. – Scott Alexander
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. – Benjamin Franklin
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. – Lao Tzu
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken
