Keyword: Good

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Characteristics Family

You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Characteristics Misspokements Speech

You’re only has good as your last haircut.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist
Appearance

To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
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There's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)
Characteristics People

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Characteristics History Time

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Characteristics Problems Situations

Gooder than grits

Miscellaneous

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist
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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Children Family People Women

If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

I like a man who's good, but not too good; for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Age Characteristics

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Characteristics Girls People Women

Life is strange; every so often a good man wins.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor
Characteristics Individuals Life People Success

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

(1936 – ) American actor, director & screenwriter
Characteristics People World

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Characteristics Husbands Marriage

Many a good egg ends up getting beaten.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
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Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

(1880 – ?) American author
Characteristics Lies