Good Man Quotes

654 quotes by 476 authors

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and… — Jacques Monod
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. — William Howard Taft
The desire to know is natural to good men. — Leonardo da Vinci
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. — Thomas Jefferson
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. — Louis Auchincloss
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her. — W.C. Fields
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C.S. Lewis
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in… — John Milton
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are. — Woodrow Wilson
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say. — Virginia Woolf
Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability. — Wes Fesler
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. — Spark Matsunaga
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does… — Mark Twain

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