Good | Proverbs in English

Proverbs:

All good is the better for being diffusive.: *

And learn the luxury of doing good.: Goldsmith

Be good and refrain not to do good.: *

Be good in your office, you’ll keep the longer on.: *

Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.: Pope

For he that once is good is ever great.: Ben Jonson

Good and bad make up a city.: Portuguese

Good and quickly seldom meet.: *

Good at a distance is better than evil at hand.: *

Good comes to better and better to bad.: French

Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.: Turkish

Good is good but better carrieth it.: *

Good never comes too often.: Danish

Good the more communicated more abundant grows.: Milton

Good that comes too late is good as nothing.: *

Good though long stayed for is good.: *

Great and good are seldom the same.: *

Gude fowk are scarce, take care of ane.: *

He begins to grow bad who believes himself good.: Italian

He cannot be good that knows not why he is good.: *

He is not good himself who speaks well of everybody alike.: *

He knows best what good is who has endured evil.: *

He that does good shall find good, he that does evil shall find evil.: Turkish

He that hath plenty of good shall have more, he that hath but little shall have less.: *

He that helps the evil hurts the good.: Socrates

He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.: *

How few know their own good, or knowing it pursue.: Juvenal

If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true.: *

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.: Cicero

In avoiding that which is evil I have found that which is good.: Latin

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.: Cicero

It is good if it were but caught.: *

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.: Cicero

No man is good unless others are made better by him.: Welsh

None can be good too soon.: *

Out of a great evil comes a great good.: Italian

So good that he is good for nothing.: Italian

Some good, some bad as sheep come to the fold.: *

That’s my good that does me good.: *

The good are joyful in the midst of poverty, but the wicked are sad in great riches.: *

The good for virtue’s sake abhor to sin.: Creech

The good fear no law; it is his safety and the bad man’s awe.: Massinger

The good or evil we confer on others often recoils on ourselves.: Fielding

The good palliate no bad action.: *

The good that is done to bad men is as often productive of injury as the milk which is given to a snake is converted into poison.: Modern Greek

The good you do is not lost though you forget it.: *

There are good and bad everywhere.: Italian

There is none that doeth good, no not one.: Bible

There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil.: *

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.: Shakespeare

They are aye gude that are far awa’.: *

Though good be good, better is better /or better carries it/.: *

What is good is never too abundant.: Don Quixote

What is good is difficult.: Plato

Where there is no good within, no good comes out.: Dutch

Worldly good is ebb and flood.: Dutch

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