Quotes with good-fortune

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

  Leonardo Da Vinci
  Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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• A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

  Julie Burchill
  British journalist, writer
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• A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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• A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

  Ansel Adams
  American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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• A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

  Vincent Van Gogh
  Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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• A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

  H. Stanley Judd
  American author
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• A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

  George S. Patton
  American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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• A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton
  American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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• A good poet's made as well as born.

  Ben Johnson
  English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

  Dustin Hoffman
  American actor and director (1937 - )
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• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  Freeman Dyson
  American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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• A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

  Martin Luther
   
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• A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

  Raymond Chandler
  American writer (1888 - 1959)
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• A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

  Anne McCaffrey
  American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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• A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

  Irvin S. Cobb
  American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• impassioned
• frightening
• destination
• unthinkable
• engineering
• storyteller

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