'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Menander
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time... →
Mencius
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.