| "Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety." »Louis Kronenberger |
| "Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness." »Athenus |
| "It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune..." »Samuel Smiles |
| "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." »John Swinton |
| "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "What am I afraid of I'll tell you a feather. that's right, a feather. How could anyone be afraid of a feather, you say. That's an honest question, and I'll try to give it an honest answer. First of all, did I say it was a poison feather" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "Goodness is easier to recognize than to define." »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality." »Beatrix Potter |
| "Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness." »Vincent McNabb |
| "People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." »Charles Spencer |
| "Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive." »William Congreve |
| "When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them." »Euripides |
| "Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits." »Heloise |
| "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." »William Hazlitt |
| "No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness." »Alan Alda |
| "Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good." »Swami Vivekananda |
| "Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue." »John Dryden |
| "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr |
| "The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season." »Real Live Preacher |
| "Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness." »Martin Luther |
| "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." »Mark Twain |
| "The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal." »Lao Tzu |
| "It is better to be quotable than to be honest." »Tom Stoppard |
| "Confusion is always the most honest response." »Marty Indik |
| "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." »William Shakespeare |
| "To live outside the law you must be honest." »Bob Dylan |
| "Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time" »Old School |
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