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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 on good

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare on good

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson on good

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher on good

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi on good

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe on good

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison on good

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau on good

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank on good

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 on good

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 on good

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg on good

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine on good

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt on good

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin on good

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde on good

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde on good

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato on good

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare on good