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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.


Alexander Pope

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WILD THING Politics is a good thing!
LARRY J. SABATO Caffeine is a good thing.
MANOJ BHARGAVA I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
PETER BENCHLEY There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
PLATO Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
DAN BUCATINSKY A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.
JASON CHAFFETZ Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.
KEITH ELLISON Multiple cat households are a good thing.
CELIA HAMMOND It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.
AUBREY PLAZA Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.
LEE DEWYZE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married.
ERIN MORAN If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
ELMORE LEONARD But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
DEMETRI MARTIN One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the pictur...
PIERRE BONNARD I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
CARL HONORE It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
MAE WEST I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.
STEPHEN FINCHER Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
BILLY GIBBONS My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
DANA PERINO Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
NIK KERSHAW It's a wise thing that Kuckuck is doing.
GREG MELLO It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong ...
JOHN ELKANN I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for...
VACLAV KLAUS I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
MARTHA STEWART And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
JAMES MACARTHUR It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
PHYLLIS DILLER The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN I don't feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.
CONOR MCGREGOR Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
EDDIE TRUNK Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
DOLLY PARTON Tony is a very strange character. He is one of the most generous and most selfish men I have met. I ...
DARIO FRANCHITTI I thought the whole thing was so hilarious. I thought a film could show how ridiculous (corrupt exec...
CLAUDE CHABROL There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's s...
CATHERINE OPIE It is amazing how generous people really are. This has really been a great thing.
ALAN WHITE I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as wel...
BRONTE CAMPBELL A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more o...
ADAM PEATY Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from D...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents a...
JAMIE DIMON Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
ADAM FERRARA The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
ELBERT HUBBARD It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
DENIS HEALEY Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
DANIEL GOLEMAN The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.
PAUL KEATING It's a good thing not very many people were watching,
JACK HORNER No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you us...
WILLIE AAMES It's a very happy thing that we're doing to help people.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor...
MICHAEL J. FOX The only safe thing is to take a chance.
MIKE NICHOLS Most people don't know that I'll eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good th...
KELLI BERGLUND Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
TAYLOR HANSON Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
KAILASH KHER It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
DOLLY PARTON To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving ...
DAVID SIMON There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be ...
TORI AMOS I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memor...
ETHAN CANIN I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my ag...
MACAULAY CULKIN Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacen...
NANCY PEARCEY I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driv...
ELON MUSK It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
YANI TSENG Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, n...
KAPIL SIBAL It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good ...
NATHAN FIELDER Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
CARA BLACK How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
MARK TWAIN Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?
TOM TANCREDO I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
NOAH TAYLOR I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thi...
FRED WILSON I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP EDINBURGH I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP DUKE OF EDINBURGH Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.
DAVEED DIGGS One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste...
XAVIER BECERRA Humans are very weird creatures. Perhaps stupidity is the smartest thing they are capable of conjuri...
RUBEN PAPIAN I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the e...
NIKKI BELLA I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die...
STEVE GLEASON I think it helps me. You know, I've got two more meets under my belt, and that's always a go...
CARLY PATTERSON American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it ...
ROBERT FISK Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album ...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. It's like, boom! - I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made m...
YOUNG THUG It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoy...
SAMMY HAGAR I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must w...
DAN FARMER If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receiv...
RUSSELL SIMMONS I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.
ROBIN COSTE LEWIS We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our...
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ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
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ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
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ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
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ALEXANDER POPE Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Die and endow a college or a cat.
ALEXANDER POPE But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPE Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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ALEXANDER POPE Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
ALEXANDER POPE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
ALEXANDER POPE Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
ALEXANDER POPE Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
ALEXANDER POPE I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
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ALEXANDER POPE What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
ALEXANDER POPE I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
ALEXANDER POPE Health consists with temperance alone.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
ALEXANDER POPE And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
ALEXANDER POPE Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
ALEXANDER POPE