The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
—Thomas Edison
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology – His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good – you can leave His ethical teaching intact.
—J. Gresham Machen
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
—Heraclitus
Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God. It is profitable and advantageous. It is health to the mind. The soul is greatly bettered and advantaged by it. It is an exercise that naturally tends to the spiritual life, to strengthen, confirm and increase it.
—Jonathan Edwards
Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God. It is profitable and advantageous. It is health to the mind. The soul is greatly bettered and advantaged by it. It is an exercise that naturally tends to the spiritual life, to strengthen, confirm and increase it.
—Jonathan Edwards
It doesn’t cost anything to be honest, but without honesty people can’t have good lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
—Nikolai Gogol
Perfect is the enemy of good.
—Voltaire
To him alone, from whom every good and perfect gift cometh, be all the thanks and glory.
—George Whitefield
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truly good people don’t expect rewards for their good deeds. They forget about them the way a person forgets about his breathing.
—Leo Tolstoy
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence–and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.
—Nikolai Gogol
The world is not without good people and not without evil ones. Otherwise, how would we know which ones are good.
—Taras Shevchenko
Try all things, hold fast that which is good.
—John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
—John Locke
He that had as good left for his improvement as was already taken up, needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another’s labour:
—John Locke
I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
—John Locke
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
—Nikolai Gogol
An ordinary person expects good or bad from the outside, and a thinking person expects that from within.
—Taras Shevchenko
There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
There are no good friends, no bad friends, there are only people you want to be with, who you need to be with, and who have found a place in your heart.
—Taras Shevchenko
Be generous try to grant good faith to those with whom you disagree.
—Peter R. Rose
When evil is committed, a person is afraid that people will know about it, he can still find a way to good. When, having done good, a person tries to make people know about it, he gives rise to evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
Maybe good and evil have the same face. It all depends on when we encounter them on our path.
—Taras Shevchenko
A stupid person does not become good, and a good person can easily become bad.
—Taras Shevchenko
What could be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have a good heart? He will use all his knowledge for evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
Good opportunities don’t show up everyday — when they do, act on them right away.
—Peter R. Rose
Courtrooms are good places to stay out of.
—Peter R. Rose