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  • A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
        Augusten Burroughs   Best?
  • Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.
        Louis L'Amour   Best?
  • All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.
        Scott Alexander   Best?
  • GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Whatever you are, be a good one.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Anyone who is different today faces harassment, whether it is in the way he dresses, or in the position he takes on important issues. And when the price of being different is a cold fear, with good reason, then freedom as we peddle it in our international publicity releases is gone. If and when it disappears, it won't be stolen by big government, the tax collector, or the Supreme Court. Fascism will be the people's choice. It usually is. We've managed to avoid it so far only because nobody nutty enough to give the people what they want has come along. Yet.
        Mike Royko   Best?
  • Bad is never good until worse happens.
        Danish Proverb   Best?
  • Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
        Dave Matthews   Best?
  • I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
        Buddha   Best?
  • Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons: I've got em coz everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.
        Danny DeVito   Best?
  • A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.
        Ludwig van Beethoven   Best?
  • What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
        Confucious   Best?
  • It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
        David Bailey   Best?
  • I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self- recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn't know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.
        Richard Price   Best?
  • The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
        Bob Marley   Best?
  • Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • A good book has no ending.
        R. D. Cumming   Best?
  • A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
        Paul Valery   Best?
  • Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
        Clint Eastwood   Best?
  • A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
        Francis Bacon   Best?
  • They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • I don't like to sit around and judge others as I don't like to be judged myself.
        Britney Spears   Best?
  • To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.
        Prophet Mohammed   Best?
  • He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • When I'm good, I'm very, very good. When I'm bad, I'm better.
        Mae West   Best?

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