Top 100 Man Good Quotes

#1. I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

Josef Albers

#2. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Camille Paglia

#3. Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.

Pierce Brosnan

#5. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Denis Diderot

#6. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.

Gregor Golob

#7. My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

Donald Trump

#8. My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.

Kellan Lutz

#9. War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Dear God, she couldn't give this man sex. She could barely give it to Van, and he currently smelled so good she just wanted to shove her face under his t-shirt and eat whatever she found there.

Charlotte Stein

#11. Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

Elie Wiesel

#12. Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.

Etienne Gilson

#13. A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Murray Kempton

#14. Good boy," said Dr. Van Helsing. "Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it.

Bram Stoker

#15. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. Amongst good men two men suffice.

George Herbert

#17. It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Charles Spurgeon

#18. I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.

Brett Kiellerop-Morris

#19. Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.

Colleen McCullough

#20. It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Bliss Carman

#21. My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

William Shakespeare

#22. Sure he's dead, and it's a good thing for us. It's hard to argue with a dead man. A dead man can't change his mind or make new rules, or behave like a bastard so no one will listen to him anymore. A dead man stays a saint.

Cherie Priest

#23. Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

Isaac Asimov

#24. No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Bertrand Russell

#25. I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

Corey Taylor

#26. Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I. F. Stone

#27. A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.

Stephen King

#28. The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Marcus Aurelius

#29. Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle.
Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels.
Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand
That Santa Claus is a black man.

Keith Murray

#30. A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

E.B. White

#31. The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

Waylon Jennings

#32. A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

Johann Peter Eckermann

#33. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.

Jaroslav Hasek

#34. I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#35. Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

Rene Descartes

#36. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.

C. JoyBell C.

#37. [Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.

Rick Santorum

#38. The beauty Snow White's got has nothing to do with him. She's scarred up and suspicious and shameless. Her pretty's not for him. It's like saying the moon's got a fine figure on her. Maybe true, but what good is that to a man? Snow

Catherynne M Valente

#39. Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

Alain Gerbault

#40. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.

Rosalind Lauer

#41. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

Kevin Plank

#42. The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#43. Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#44. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down.

G.K. Chesterton

#45. Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak.
"Life," answered the doctor.

Rick Yancey

#46. A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Samuel Johnson

#47. I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.

David Plouffe

#48. The good man does not grieve
that other people do not recognize his merits.
His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

Confucius

#49. You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Marcus Aurelius

#50. He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! - so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!

Jane Austen

#51. The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.

Nora Roberts

#52. On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

CeeLo Green

#53. It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Francis Bacon

#54. How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning

#55. The good man's only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him,

Diana Gabaldon

#56. You can't be angry with bad men. But a good man in the wrong - why one thirsts for his blood.

G.K. Chesterton

#57. For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

Rafe Spall

#58. They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.

Kyra Davis

#59. I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross,

Stephen Curry

#60. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Charles Dudley Warner

#61. Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Livy

#62. When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Honore De Balzac

#63. Additionally, I have spent approximately 1,736 hours of this one precious life waiting for the man to finish and pretending that felt good. And I want a refund.

Anne Lamott

#64. If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Lord Chesterfield

#65. If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

Marcus Aurelius

#66. Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

Henry Adams

#67. No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

C.S. Lewis

#68. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#69. Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so,' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner,' he wailed.

Poul Anderson

#70. A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he only ought to consider whether he is doing right or wrong.

John Steinbeck

#71. I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

Patti Stanger

#72. It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

Francis Bacon

#73. Good manners are a sign of strength.

Dick Francis

#74. Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

Andrew Sharp

#75. I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Andrew Carnegie

#76. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

#77. You ... you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?
What? Oh ... yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

Edward Albee

#78. [Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

Chinua Achebe

#79. I can't see where I'm going if I only look where I've been, my good man!

Lisa Mantchev

#80. Most important is be a good man.

Pele

#81. Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub.

Gail Carriger

#82. Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

Julia McNair Wright

#83. No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Clarence Darrow

#84. A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

Theodore Roosevelt

#85. Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

Levi Woodbury

#86. This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

Plato

#87. A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

Sydney J. Harris

#88. The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Aristotle.

#89. The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

Martin Luther

#90. When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Gerrit Smith

#91. If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.

Bernard Cornwell

#92. 22 A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

Anonymous

#93. Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#94. The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

Evel Knievel

#95. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

Joseph Addison

#96. No race is more adept than humans at weaving a mask of excuses, at ultimately claiming good intent. And no race is more adept at believing its own claims. How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? But

R.A. Salvatore

#97. Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#98. Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

Walter Scott

#99. When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Euripides

#100. Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

Philip K. Dick

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