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"I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to." »Will Rogers
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"a man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." »Robert Jackson
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"Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them." »Paul Hawken
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow." »Josh Billings
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"Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing." »Author Unknown
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"I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"a good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready." »Lawrence Downs
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"Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye." »Kimon Nicolaides
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"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson." »Bruce Catton
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully." »Walter Lippmann
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"The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience." »Roderic Owen
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"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened." »Thomas Hardy
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"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other." »Ayn Rand
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"Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information." »W, Willard Wirtz
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"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience." »John Cage
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"It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand." »Carlyle
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"It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it." »Mayer Amschal Rothschild
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"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world." »William Lyon Phelps
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"Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion." »George Eliot
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"The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time." »Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000
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"a good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender." »Jim Bishop
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"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others." »William Lyon Phelps
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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few." »Pythagorus
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"deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." »Chinese Proverb
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"That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect." »La Bruyere
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"If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain." »Unknown
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"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power." »Tryon Edwards
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