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Good Quotes by Gore Vidal
- Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference,…
- At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option…
- American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
- The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his…
- Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of…
- At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he…
- We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have…
- A good deed never goes unpunished.
- Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
- The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you…
- I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may…
- I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,…
More Good Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle