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Goodly Quotes (page 294)

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could. Charlaine Harris
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have. Thomas More
Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refuge in art. The best in nature is raw without art, and the excellent is lacking if it lacks culture. Without cultivation everyone is a clown and needs polish, fine attributes notwithstanding. Baltasar Gracian
Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. George Sand
Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue... Robert Louis Stevenson
George R. R. Martin quote: "Sleep is good, he said, And books are better."
Sleep is good, he said, And books are better. George R. R. Martin
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey. Stephen Crane
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
William Shakespeare quote: "Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know..."
Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves. William Shakespeare
Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness. Czeslaw Milosz
Rita Rudner quote: "A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men..."
A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe. Rita Rudner
Christopher Hitchens quote: "To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women..."
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world? Christopher Hitchens
A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact. George Orwell
William Shakespeare quote: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft..."
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare
Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal. Friedrich Nietzsche

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