Quotes of Virtuous - somelinesforyou

“ What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much. ”

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

“ Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am. ”

- Theodore Parker

“ 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

“ 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, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. ”

- William Saroyan

“ Why should the devil have all the good tunes? ”

- Rowland Hill

“ Conscience — the only incorruptible thing about us. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ Try not to have a good time... This is supposed to be educational. ”

- Charles Schulz

“ You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion. ”

- Colley Cibber

“ How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. ”

- Bible

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

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. ”

- Bible

“ Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Let us make an honourable retreat. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ So far, 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

“ It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ 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

“ Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. ”

- George Santayana

“ However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them? ”

- The Dhammapada

“ Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ”

- George Eliot

“ I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play. ”

- John Hunter

“ Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ”

- Jimmy Demaret

“ Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ The higher the culture the more honorable the work. ”

- Unknown
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