Keyword: Good (Page 3)

Gooder’n snuff and not half as dusty

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

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

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

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

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

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Gooder than grits

Be good and you will be lonely.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Everything is just peaches and beans.

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

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

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

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

(1939 – ) American television host, producer & author

I’ve been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks; the rest of them take after the other side of the family.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality