A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

A good liar must have a good memory.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

No good deed goes unpunished.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

We're lost, but we're making good time

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.