Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Canadians have an inherent good nature, and they are used to being made fun of. — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's… — Feist Copy Share Image
The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is… — William Temple Copy Share Image
The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“Elise hid her face in his shoulder, embarassed, "Kane! What will they think?" She whispered against his neck. "That we're newly bonded… — Nicky Charles Copy Share Image
“The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it he drew a very pleasant picture of an affectionate, happy family who lived unpretentiously in circumstances of moderate affluence… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I have the honour to be quite of your Lordship's opinion," said Mr. Lovel, looking maliciously at Mrs. Selwyn, "for I have… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The world is good natured to people who are good natured. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
