Quotes of Righteous - somelinesforyou

“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. ”

- Martin Luther

“ A man of great common sense and good taste — meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth — well, it's like brown — it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. ”

- Iris Murdoch

“ It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true. ”

- Matthew

“ Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. ”

- Dick Gephardt

“ Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.For Saint Paul says that all that's written wellIs written down some useful truth to tell.Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good morals; it can destroy bad principles and re-create good ones; it can lift men to angelship. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Good things don't end in 'eum,' they end in 'mania' or 'teria. ”

- Homer Simpson

“ Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. ”

- Karl Barth

“ I believe that good things come to those who work. ”

- Wilt Chamberlain

“ One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Blake is damned good to steal from. ”

- Henry Fuseli

“ I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere. ”

- Neil Young

“ There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. ”

- Steven Spielberg

“ There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bore it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord. ”

- Bible

“ The Bible is the Chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that is evil, in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide. ”

- Noah Webster

“ The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous. ”

- Unknown

“ Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird. ”

- Woody Allen

“ The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. ”

- Euripides

“ Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation. ”

- John Dewey

“ I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. ”

- Bible

“ Be not righteous overmuch. ”

- Bible

“ I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war. ”

- Cicero

“ The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. ”

- Proverbs

“ I will see that right prevails… My salvation lasts forever; my righteous rule will never die. ”

- The Bible
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