"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot."
"And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?"
"Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say."
"He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen."
"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"
"But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to."
"As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it."
"The basis of all choice in manifestation is Loving Yourself. This is the start and the finish to all good things that you are looking for."
"Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done."
"There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone."
"The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal."
"It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy."
"What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it."
"The good thing is, we have household formation in this country."
"Good things should be praised."
"It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common."
"It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture."
"When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is."
"Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are. It works for me. Stay positive and good things happen."