I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence.
Quotes about good-natured (16 Quotes)
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man
This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
The Snow Box Derby is a wonderful valley-wide event. The NorthSouth Challenge is a fun way to bring everyone in the valley together for some healthy, good-natured competition.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
When men are employed, they are best contented for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good days work, they spent the evening jollily but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
If it is abuse, why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or anoth.
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
A sense of relationship and copartnership with God involves the concept of universal brotherhood and that will help to develop intelligent tolerance, open-mindedness, and good-natured optimism. Life is really a battle between fear and faith, pessimism and optimism. Fear and pessimism paralyze men with skepticism and futility. One must have a sense of humor to be an optimist in times like these. And you young women will need a sense of humor if you marry these young men and try to live with them. Golden Kimball once said in a conference, 'The Lord Himself must like a joke or he wouldn't have made some of you people.' But your good humor must be real, not simulated. Let your smiles come from the heart and they will become contagious. You may see men on the street any day whose laugh is only a frozen grin with nothing in it but teeth. Men without humor tend to forget their source, lose sight of their goal, and with no lubrication in their mental crankshafts, they must drop out of the race. Lincoln said, 'Good humor is the oxygen of the soul.' And someone paraphrased, 'The surly bird catches the germ.'
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
He was a simple guy, a quiet person, always good-natured. On every birthday he would bring me something, like a bouquet of flowers. He sent me something on every holiday. He never forgot me.