Natured Quotes

72 quotes by 60 authors

There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug… — Mary Lou Retton
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work… — William Hazlitt
The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth,… — Lewis Carroll
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment. — Thornton Wilder
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative;… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic… — Florence King
The presidents poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly… — Brit Hume
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret… — Honore de Balzac
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. — Gautama Buddha
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend. — James Payn
I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively… — Heber C. Kimball
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. — Joseph Addison
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. — Leon Kass
A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another. This wonderful collection… — James Fadiman
My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being. — Heber C. Kimball
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured. — Josh Billings
Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob. — Bing Crosby
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair. — Ian Holm

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