A Quotes
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“A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite...What are you going to be? And he says...An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else”
“A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.”
“A good man is a good man, but a good woman is great.”
Source: FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized
“A 'good man' is a male creature that survives the endless episodes that its woman spends complaining about women who she hates, and, women who hate her.”
“A good man is a rare gem. His love is like pure honey dripping from the hive—sweet and golden. His passion is like an eagle soaring towards the skies—genuine and driven.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.”
“A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.”
“A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.”
“A good man is not merely captivated by external beauty; he embodies goodness. His gaze extends beyond the surface because he reaches for essence. He understands that true beauty emanates from unbending values and a noble character.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.”
Source: The Analects
“A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.”
Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song
“A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.”
“A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.”
“A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.”
“A good man may make a mistake once but never twice.”
“A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“A good man never dies.”
Source: The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis
“A good man never fights with a woman.”
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories
“A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.”
“A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.”
“A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.”
“A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.”
“A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.”
“A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.”
“A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.”
Source: The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1: Sejanus, Volpone, Epicoene Or the Silent Woman
“A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT!”
“A good man wears the mantle of a provider with reverence. He toils tirelessly for his family, not merely to put food on the table but to nourish their souls. His hands form a safety net of love, hope, belonging, and security.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A good man who did a bad thing.”
“A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.”
Source: The Analects
“A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.”
“A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
of others.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.”
“A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
“A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”
“A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.”
“A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.”
“A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.”
“A good man would never harm or oppress another. A good man would share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”
“A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.”
“A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.”
“A good man's life is all of a piece.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.”
“A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie
“A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.”