A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.