Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 2741 till 2760 of 2790.

  • Basil of Caesarea A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Thomas Fuller A good friend is my nearest relation.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller A good garden may have some weeds.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Thomas Fuller A man is not good or bad for one action.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Pablo Picasso Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Kin Hubbard All the world loves a good loser.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Cato the Elder An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Bryan Ferry And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Elias Canetti As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Ovid Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Iris Murdoch Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • George Macdonald But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Bill Walton But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world by practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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