Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 2381 till 2400 of 2790.

  • Claudius To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Hippocrates To do nothing is also a good remedy.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Josh Billings To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ovid To give requires good sense.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Barbra Streisand To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Catton To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Plutarch To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • John Churton Collins To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Billy Corgan To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • St. Teresa of Avila To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Demosthenes To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Leo Tolstoy To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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