Good Man Quotes - Page 22

• Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

  L. Frank Baum

  Men, Wizards, Very Good

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• Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Beautiful, Successful

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

  Thomas Paine

  4th Of July, Men, Hard

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• I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Dream, Husband, Men

  "The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot". Volume One,

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• The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Church, Purpose

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• Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

  William Saroyan

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

  William Goldman

  Sports, Pain, Revenge

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang for it, and so will his squad, most of whom are also nice men, and though I can't say I really care if your attendants hang, there are probably many people that do care, and would you please, please get down?" The king looked at him, eyes narrowed. "I don't think I've ever heard you say that many words in a row. You sounded almost articulate.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Wall, Nice

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• Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

  Burton Raffel

  Kings, Mean, Warrior

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Bridges, Has Beens

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Women: A Novel”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Civilization, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

  Confucius

  Wise, Adversity, Men

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• The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Struggle, Adversity, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.176

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• That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Player, Ability

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• Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Heart, Men

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• Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Vulnerable, Manners, Protect

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• Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Be Good, Portions

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• Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Virtue, Manners, Tolerable

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• When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Fun, Men

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Heart, Men, Terrible

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• Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Marriage, Learning

  Charles Dickens (1993). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Learning, Men

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• Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Emotion, Manners, Polite

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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• FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

  Stuart Symington

  Men, White, House

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