Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 2790.

• It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

  Archibald Alexander
  American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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• It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• It is easy to rule over the good.

  Plautus
  Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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• It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

  Pliny the Elder
  Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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• It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

  Ariel Durant
  Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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• It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

  Salvador Dali
  Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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• It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
  

  Robert E. Lee
  American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  Carine Roitfeld
  French fashion editor (1954 - )
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• It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

  Pensees

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot
  English economist (1826 - 1877)
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• It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

  Ernest Hemingway
  American writer (1899 - 1961)
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• It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

  J. C. Macaulay
  American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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• It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

  Gerald F. Lieberman
  American writer
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• It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  John Maynard Keynes
  British economist (1883 - 1946)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• pontificating
• philosopher
• functioning
• temptations
• politicians
• especially

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