A good name for-winneth.
A good name is a second inheritance.
A good name is better than bags of gold.
Cervantes
A good name is better than precious ointment.
Bible
A good name is better than riches.
A good name is like precious ointment'; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
Bacon
A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions.
South
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 1)
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
Bible
A good name is sooner lost than won.
A good name is the best of all treasures.
A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.
Zimmermann
A good neighbour, a good morning (o. morrow).
A good new year, and a merry Handsel year.
A good nut year, a good corn year.
A good occasion for courtship is, when the widow returns from the funeral.
A good old man, sir. He will be talking; as they say,
When the age is in, the wit is out.
Shakespeare
A good painter can draw a devil as well as an angel.
A good paymaster may build St. Paul's.
A good paymaster never wants workmen.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
A good paymaster starts not at assurantes.
A good pinch and a rap with a stick is a clown's compliment.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
A good presence is a letter of recommendation.
A good present need not knock long for admittance.
A good prince does not cut out freedom's tongue.
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
Milton
A good proverb does not strike one in the brow, but full in the eye.
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.
Willmott
A good recorder
sets all in order.
A good reputation is a fair estate.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
A good resolve will make any port.
Horace
A good road and a wise traveller are two different things.
A good salad may be a prologue to a bad supper.
A good saver fares better than a good gainer.
A good saver is a good server.
A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own.
La Bruyère
A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.
Thomas Fuller
A good seaman is known in bad weather.
A good servant must have good wages.
A good servant should have good wages.
A good shape is in the shear's (clippers) mouth.
A good shift may serve long, but it cannot serve for ever.
A good shift may serve long, but it will not serve ever.
A good simile is the sunshine of wisdom.
Hosea Ballou
A good simile, - as concise as a king's declaration of love.
Sterne
A good son makes a good husband.