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Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.
Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.
If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.
God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.
A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.
I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
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.
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
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.
In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'
As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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.
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
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.
I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.
If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.
A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.