Keyword: Good (Page 2)

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

(1880 – ?) American author
Characteristics Lies

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Characteristics Girls People Women

Gooder’n snuff and not half as dusty

Miscellaneous

You’re only has good as your last haircut.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist
Appearance

If it tastes good, you can't have it; if it tastes awful, you'd better clean your plate.

Characteristics Food/Drink Health

If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it.

Characteristics Expressions Situations

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Characteristics Misspokements

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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

Everything is just peaches and beans.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops Situations

I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Characteristics Money Wealth

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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

In a social situation, the most difficult thing to do is usually the right thing to do.

Murphy’s Laws

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist
Family Relationships

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

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author
Characteristics

Ain't that the berries!

Miscellaneous

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

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

That possum's on the stump.

Miscellaneous

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do – well, that's Memoirs.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
Characteristics Past Reading/Writing Self

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