Good Quotes

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you'll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

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

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

A tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection.

Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.

That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.

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

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

It is good to obey all the rules when you're young; so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

It is a matter of simple knowledge that the human likes to see the struggle between the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful.

My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.