Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 2790.

  • Bernard Malamud No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Kofi Annan No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • John Mason Brown No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Margaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • M. Creighton No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
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  • James A. Froude No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Annie Besant No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • André Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Auguste Rodin Nobody does good to men with impunity.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • John Milton None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • George Santayana Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Plutarch Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Socrates Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Titus Livy Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George M. Adams Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
    George M. Adams
    American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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  • Roger Staubach Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
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  • Philip Roth Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
    American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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