Keyword: Good

Ain't that the berries!

Miscellaneous

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics Emotions Happiness

Be good and you will be lonely.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Characteristics People Self

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Characteristics Husbands Marriage

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

(1895 – 1985) British author & classical scholar
Communication Reading/Writing Success

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist
Characteristics

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor
Characteristics

You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Characteristics Misspokements Speech

I like a man who's good, but not too good; for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Age Characteristics

These cigars are the nectarines of the gods.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Characteristics Malaprops

Life is strange; every so often a good man wins.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor
Characteristics Individuals Life People Success

I’ve been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks; the rest of them take after the other side of the family.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
America Characteristics Family Fathers People Places

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Characteristics Family

Gooder’n snuff and not half as dusty

Miscellaneous

If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it.

Characteristics Expressions Situations

That possum's on the stump.

Miscellaneous

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

(1880 – ?) American author
Characteristics Lies

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Characteristics Girls People Women

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

(1939 – ) American television host, producer & author
Characteristics Life

Mother Teresa with better legs.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Characteristics People

This is gooder'n grits.

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