Good Man Quotes - Page 39

• He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Mother, Good Life

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• A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

  William Feather

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

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• I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Interesting, Sublime

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• Good men must be affectionate men.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Affectionate

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.228

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• Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

  Max Schmeling

  Men, Hardest, Plans

  Max Schmeling (1998). “Max Schmeling: An Autobiography”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

  Georg Buchner

  Men, Walks, Conscience

  "Woyzeck". Play by Georg Büchner, Scene X, 1879.

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• A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

  Massad Ayoob

  Men, Rights, Justice

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• Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Beautiful, Sincerity, Manners

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

  H. R. Giger

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Alien Artist H.R. Giger Passes Away at Age 74" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

  C. I. Scofield

  Kindness, Men, Justice

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• No good man ever became suddenly rich.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Wealth, Rich

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Years, May

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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• All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

  Plautus

  Men, Guilt, Should

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• For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Law, Needs, May

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• A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Way, Instinct

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• 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, Names

  June Jordan (2003). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.277, Basic Books

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• Good manners are a sign of strength.

  Dick Francis

  Manners, Good Manners

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Sweet, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XLIX”

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• Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

  Cleopatra

  Men, History, Historical

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• Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

  Max Muller

  Men, Long, Evil

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  C. D. Broad

  Spiritual, Healthy, Hunger And Thirst

  C. D. Broad (2000). “Five Types of Ethical Theory”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

  Herman Melville

  Knowledge, Names, Knowing

  Herman Melville (1850). “Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.89

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• Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

  Colley Cibber

  Screw You, Compass, Manners

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.49

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• For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

  Socrates

  Men, Gentleman, Causes

  "The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 1". Book by Plato, Clarendon Press, p. 148, 1871.

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