Top 100 Quotes About A Good Man
#1. A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service.
Plutarch
#2. Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.
Harry Truman
#3. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
Thomas Hardy
#4. It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
Aristotle.
#5. Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Louis Auchincloss
#6. Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.
Cleopatra
#7. You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally have a good man.
Ashley Newell
#8. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?
Alice Randall
#9. A Johnson honours his obligations. His word is good and he is a good man to do business with. A Johnson minds his own business. He is not a snoopy self-righteous trouble-making person. A Johnson will give help when neeeded.
William S. Burroughs
#10. When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.
George Eliot
#11. To her core, she suddenly knew she was not prepared to die at the hands of this worm. She had a betrothal ball to attend, wedding vows to declare, and a good man to love.
Catherine LaRoche
#12. Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
Philo
#13. Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be out of his league in ways he'll never understand. But he'll appreciate what he doesn't understand - if he's smart.
James Anderson
#14. Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be
a man.
Edward Abbey
#15. There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor.
John Pyper-Ferguson
#16. Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
Raheel Farooq
#17. If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.
Eddie Albert
#18. I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
Faith Ringgold
#19. When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
Confucius
#20. Michel is a good man, full of hope. Sometimes hope is exhausting.
Zadie Smith
#21. He was a good man, but he had a broken heart. That'll take even the best of them down.
Hugh Howey
#22. I'm not a good man, Karissa, and I never will be. So dont think you can fix me, or that I'll ever change, because I won't. I can't.
J.M. Darhower
#23. The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.
Terry Pratchett
#24. At what point have you ever gotten the impression that there are good people in the royal cabal?"
"You've given me that impression. Yes. You have."
"Well, get past it. Because I'm not a good man. Not in the slightest. I just pay my debts.
Brian McClellan
#25. It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.
Unknown
#26. I don't guarantee you to be a good man,
I promise you will be a better man
Unknown
#28. He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed ... And if I am not a good man, I have no just right in this Church to a wife or wives, or the power to propagate my species. What then should be done with me? Make a eunuch of me, and stop my propagation.
Heber C. Kimball
#30. Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. 'A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,' was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches.
Iain Pears
#31. ....he has done nothing but prove to me that not only is he a good man, he's a man madly in love with my daughter, and will do anything to protect her.
Sam Crescent
#32. Brookie was a good boy," she said, "but he did not grow up to be a good man. He had the fatal gift of making people believe him.
Alan Bradley
#34. My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
Don Rickles
#35. It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man,
to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last.
"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever
forget ...
Leo Tolstoy
#37. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.
Toni Morrison
#38. No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time.
But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed,
then it might be a good chance for you ...
to be a better man.
Toba Beta
#39. An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.
George R R Martin
#41. I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.
Cindy McCain
#42. I feel like there's always somebody out there ready to take your man. If you got a good man, women are like you know their sleeping around.
Gabrielle Dennis
#43. When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.
Nevil Shute
#44. Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She
Stephen King
#45. A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. He didn't know why she was there, didn't know why she kept coming back, didn't know, she could have a good man like Haines, why she left Haines's house and ended her night in Cal's bed. And he didn't care. She was there.
Kristen Ashley
#47. It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
Seneca The Younger
#48. Socrates taught that
No evil could come
To a good man.
How does that help me?
Evan Rhys
#49. Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?
Mika Brzezinski
#50. Chocolate or a good man can instigate your heart's surrender, but full-bodied pleasure and overflowing love - opening until you are exposed fully to God as love's bliss - is the only way to live true to your deepest desire, with or without a trustable lover or a tasty dessert.
David Deida
#51. The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
Richard Steele
#53. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#54. No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!
Marcus Aurelius
#55. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.
G.K. Chesterton
#56. Rincewind had been his assistant and his friend, and was a good man when it came to peeling a banana. He had also been uniquely good at running away from things. He was not, the Librarian considered, the type to be easily caught. There
Terry Pratchett
#57. I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
John Buchan
#58. Don't give your heart to him, Shay," Darby says softly. "Ford won't keep it safe. No one ever kept his heart safe growing up and he doesn't know how to treat anyone any better. It's not his fault he's not a good man, but it'll be your fault if you expect him to be one.
Bijou Hunter
#59. To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
Plato
#60. A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#61. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
Herman Melville
#62. I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.
Jim Butcher
#63. I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go.
John Mayer
#64. You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
Tacitus
#65. Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Carroll O'Connor
#66. It took a special kind of madness to try to be a pirate and a good man at the same time.
Matt Myklusch
#67. Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?"
"No. I just prefer to keep my distance."
"Evil isn't contagious."
"I thought you said you weren't the most evil man in the world?"
"I'm not. But that doesn't mean I'm a good man."
"I don't think anyone would argue with that.
Anne Stuart
#68. If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
Socrates
#70. salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life.
Louis Markos
#71. Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
Aristotle.
#72. All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was not strong. He had never been through any kind of bad hardship before. So I worried.
Amy Tan
#73. A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.
Tom Morrison
#74. Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
Jane Espenson
#75. Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
Dick Gephardt
#76. No self-respecting God would allow a good man to be happy for long. God has relevance only in the unhappiness of good people.
Anand Neelakantan
#77. A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT!
L. Michelle
#79. Good men are a bit like border collies: we're happiest when we're useful. That's why the life of a good man involves constant striving for direction and meaning.
Shawn T. Smith
#80. In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.
Frederick Scott Oliver
#81. Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.
Pearl Cleage
#82. To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
Augustus
#83. We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James
#84. He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who had been busy all his life but now had time to pay attention to useless things. But it was more than that . . . a suffering he neither complained of nor denied.
Wendell Berry
#85. Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
Aristotle.
#86. A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
Sallust
#87. Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
George Bernard Shaw
#88. A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.
Confucius
#89. The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
#90. His glare snapped back on her with enough speed that she shrunk away from him. 'Make no mistake about me,' William said harshly. 'I'm not a good man! I'm a killer; I'm just one with an agency attached to my name.
Destiny Booze
#91. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children (Prov. 13:22 NKJV). I
Dave Ramsey
#92. A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
Confucius
#93. Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
Ralph Steadman
#94. You're a good man, Cap'n Horn. I know that Miss Willis would be here with you if she could." "She will be here with me. She'll be here if I have to scour all of the confounded British Isles to find her.
Sabrina Jeffries
#95. It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man ... and dead.
Louis L'Amour
#96. I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.
Kurt Cobain
#97. Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
George R R Martin
#98. If you do ever decide to go on testosterone, build yourself into a good man. The last thing the world needs is another misogynist prick.
Ivan E. Coyote
#99. Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
Werner Herzog
#100. I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
Ted Cruz
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