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A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
One bad general is worth two good ones.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
— Francois Fenelon
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
— Thomas Carlyle
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
— Samuel Johnson
In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.
— Francis Fukuyama
I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.
— Satya Nadella
I'm not a good collaborator in general.
— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Its good make others laugh than laughing at them
— Joshua John
A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.
— James Marcus Bach
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
— Olympia Brown
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.
— Saunders Mac Lane
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Yamada might be a good general - Mat did not know - but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.
— Robert Jordan
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
— Samuel Johnson
SOCRATES: But you do say that he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general. ION: Certainly.
— Plato
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...
— Marthe Bibesco
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
— Philippe Petit
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
— David Ives
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
— Joseph Addison
Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.
— Jim Talent
I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good.
— Claire Bloom
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A good general chooses his battlefield.
— Tony Slydini
It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.
— Heather Matarazzo
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
— Polybius
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
— Nicolas Chamfort
General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.
— Harlow Curtice
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
— Douglas MacArthur
Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.
— John C. Reilly
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
— Gerhard Richter
I'm a football fan in general. I'm always pulling for a good game.
— Holly Robinson Peete
A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
— Nicolas Chamfort
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
— James Longstreet
Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea!
— Mallory Ortberg
Some battles don't have a winner. Sometimes the best a good general can hope for is a ceasefire
— Emma Chase
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.
— W. Kamau Bell
If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.
— Marcus Samuelsson
Balls in general are not a good looking item.
— Scott Disick
Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
— Keith Richards
Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
— Oscar Fernandes
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
— George Washington
In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.
— Justin Rosenstein
A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.
— Sharon Stone
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
— Henry Van Dyke
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
— William Blake
I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
— Edie Falco
I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.
— Jennifer Aniston
Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
— Josh Billings
Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
— Charles E. Wilson
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
— Adam Weishaupt
Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general.
— Victor Robert Lee
Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.
— James C. Collins
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
— Jodie Sweetin
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
— Patrick Hennessey
Good times make bad policy. - Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2
— Naomi Klein
Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
— Eric Weiner
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
— William Godwin
It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.
— Alan Wilson
Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.
— Nicolas Chamfort
They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
— Jane Austen
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
— Melanie Laurent
A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.
— Jill Abramson
As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.
— Butterfly Boucher
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
— Damian Woetzel
In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.
— Ben Goldacre
Not all design is for the general good.
— Paola Antonelli
