A Quote by B. C. Forbes

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

B. C. Forbes

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Be Good Easier Good Much Than

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B. C. Forbes
Scottish - Journalist
May 14, 1880 - May 6, 1954

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.

George Eliot

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

Grace Hopper

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

Grace Hopper

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Henry Fielding

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

Robin Tunney

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Robin Tunney

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

William Eckhardt

Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.

Thomas Huxley

The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.

Robert Englund

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

A. E. Housman

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

Eric Hoffer

I like to say good dialogue is a million times easier to memorize than bad dialogue - difficult good dialogue, even if it's difficult. Aaron Sorkin dialogue is easier to memorize, even though it's wildly complicated.