Good Man Quotes - Page 18

• To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

  Plato

  Men, Evil, Happens

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

  Patti Page

  House, Answers, Manners

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• May the good God pardon all good men.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, May, Good God

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  William Blake

  Respect, Art, Men

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reading, Men, Evil

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• Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

  Boethius

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Good manners are never passé.

  Slim Aarons

  Manners, Good Manners

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• The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

  Fisher Ames

  Stupid, Believe, Patriotic

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence”, p.45, Burt Franklin

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• I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

  Lewis Carroll

  Poetry, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

  Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.197, e-artnow

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• I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

  Richard Branson

  Mentoring, Believer, Huge

  Sir Richard Branson (2014). “The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead”, p.160, Random House

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• Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

  Adam Clarke

  Death, Father, Dark

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

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• Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

  Fanny Jackson Coppin

  People, Manners, Good Manners

  Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Gently - so have good men taught -
  Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
  Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
  Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
  Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Grief, Journey

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Looks, Arise, Fine

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Father, Mean, Men

  'Orthodoxy' (1908) ch. 4

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• Association with women is the basis of good manners.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Association, Manners

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• The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Men, Bystanders

  MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS “MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS”

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• Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?” “No. I just prefer to keep my distance.” “Evil isn’t contagious.” “I thought you said you weren’t the most evil man in the world?” “I’m not. But that doesn’t mean I’m a good man.” “I don’t think anyone would argue with that.

  Anne Stuart

  Distance, Mean, Men

  Anne Stuart (2007). “Ice Storm”, p.87, MIRA

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• what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?

  Bryce Courtenay

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.304, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Wife, Honor

  Diana Gabaldon (2005). “Outlander”, Dell Publishing Company

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• I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Men, Scare

  Toni Morrison (2008). “Love”, p.10, Random House

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• Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Wise, Growing Up, Men

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• The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Gun, Evil

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