Good Man Quotes
654 quotes by 476 authors
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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
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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
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
— Alice Duer Miller
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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
— Louis Auchincloss
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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
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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
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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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
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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
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Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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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
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
— Elbert Hubbard
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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
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Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.
— Wes Fesler
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'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
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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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