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1 " a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. "
2 " When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. "
― Euripides
3 " Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right? "
― Epictetus
4 " When I say " The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use " good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it. "
5 " But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever. "
― William Saroyan
6 " {Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!} "
― Nancy B. Brewer
7 " 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. "
8 " The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables.Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a dayI would be grounded, rooted.Said my head would not keep flying awayto where the darkness lives.The psychic told me my heart carries too much weight.Said for twenty dollars she’d tell me what to do.I handed her the twenty. She said, “Stop worrying, darling.You will find a good man soon.”The first psycho therapist told me to spendthree hours each day sitting in a dark closetwith my eyes closed and ears plugged.I tried it once but couldn’t stop thinkingabout how gay it was to be sitting in the closet.The yogi told me to stretch everything but the truth.Said to focus on the out breath. Said everyone finds happinesswhen they care more about what they givethan what they get.The pharmacist said, “Lexapro, Lamicatl, Lithium, Xanax.”The doctor said an anti-psychotic might help meforget what the trauma said.The trauma said, “Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cryabout the grief inside your bones.”But my bones said, “Tyler Clementi jumpedfrom the George Washington Bridgeinto the Hudson River convincedhe was entirely alone.”My bones said, “Write the poems. "
9 " No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you…to be a better man. "
― Toba Beta , Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
10 " I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough. "
― James Qualls , A Gathering of Dreams
11 " They were your friends?" " Yes, they were my friends." " And they will leave you to suffer alone?" " Now I see it." " And until this, were they friends you could trust?" " I could trust them." " I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law?Tell me, were they such friends?And now they leave you alone?Did you not see it before?" " I saw it. "
12 " So a good man can be a bad Christian?" " I suppose so." " Then a bad man," I said, " can be a good Christian? "
13 " I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that. "
― Toni Morrison , Love
14 " A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don’t matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks. "
15 " Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be out of his league in ways he'll never understand. But he'll appreciate what he doesn't understand—if he's smart. "
― James Anderson , The Never-Open Desert Diner (Ben Jones, #1)
16 " All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. "
― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
17 " I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough. "
18 " One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run. "
― Mike Norton ,
19 " You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same. "
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
20 " I am Mae Waylander from Halts-Walden, daughter of Robert Wallander, a good man who lost his life saving hers.' I point to Ellen. 'And I am the girl who has saved your brother's life on numerous occasions in the Waerg Woods - who fought off a wood nymph, a psychotic pre-adolescent prophet, and a determined flock of killer birds - only to have your father shoot an arrow in my side because I wouldn't let him kill my stag. "
― Sarah Dalton , White Hart (White Hart, #1)
