Quotes About Good

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection

A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

To the Trinity House, where a very good dinner among the old soakers.

You scorpions do more to keep law and order in the city than anyone else. Only the good and the pure in heart dare go out on the street after dark.

If good at times springs out of evil, to God's almighty dispensation, not to evil, be the praise. He makes man's villainy to serve Him: that is His perquisite. But let no man believe that he serves God by villainy. The kiss of Judas brought Our Blessed Lord to the Cross and, thus, salvation to mankind, yet Judas hanged himself.

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just

I want to say something but shame prevents me yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just

I'm waiting to offer you a good thing in sacrifices but going there we know is labor later toward Kydro say I am coming

Death is bad. The gods must have thought so, for it if were a good thing, they then, too, would die.

I want to say something to you but shame disarms me' 'If you longed for the good or beautiful and your tongue were not concocting evil shame would not cover your eyes. Rather you would speak about the just

Psalm 52:3: "You love evil rather than good, and falsehood rather than truth.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.