Charles A. Dana (Charles Anderson Dana) Quotes
All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
Charles A. Dana
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
Oprah Winfrey
The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey
Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
Anna Friel
Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.
Amy Poehler
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
Oscar Wilde
What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?
Marion Nestle
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
F. H. Bradley
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
H. L. Mencken
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
Aristotle
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
Aristotle
Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."
Sarah Dessen
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
Samantha Mumba
We didn't get any stops. We are trying to get better defensively but we got beat by 30 points, so obviously we are not getting better defensively. ... Obviously if you get beat by 30 points then the coach can question your effort.
Allen Iverson
Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever....Never quit.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
Charles A. Dana
