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- The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
- A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
- Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
- I said to my girl, 'Was it good for you too?' And she said, 'I don't think this was good for anybody.'
- Gary Shandling
- It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead.
- Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), (Former Chief Justice), on President George Bush
- There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.
- Fortune cookie
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), "On Liberty", 1859
- I don't drink; I don't like it - it makes me feel good.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Watch?? I'm gonna pray, man! Know any good religions?
- Zaphod Beeblebrox (Douglas Adams)
- We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too
- Toy Matinee
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