| "He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion." »Cornelius Tacitus |
| "When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us." »Margery Allingham |
| "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong." »Wilson Mizner |
| "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 |
| "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." »Sydney Harris |
| "Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment." »Lord Ritchie-Calder |
| "...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." »Albert Einstein |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true." »Lester R Bittel |
| "TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise." »Zoroaster |
| "Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion." »Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." »Oscar Wilde |
| "There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good." »F Scott |
| "A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be." »Henry Miller |
| "Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." »Daniel Webster |
| "Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." »William Shakespeare |
| "Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God." »Richard Jordan |
| "If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and know and believe some good will come from it. . . . All of us have seen good come out of disaster . . . the 'blessing in disguise.' When you expect good to come from negativity, it will. What you think about, you bring about." »Joyce Duco |
| "If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." »Paul William Bear Bryant |
| "Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth." »Claude T Bissell |
| "If it sounds good, you'll hear it If it looks good, you'll see it If it's marketed right, you'll buy it but if it's real, you'll feel it." »Kid Rock |
| "Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person" »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "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 |
| "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| " Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
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