“3540. Nice Eaters seldom meet with a good Dinner.”

“This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“We went somewhere very nice for dinner — it was very good but I can't tell you exactly what we did. It would be too naughty and you can’t run it anyway. It would just be bloop bleep bloop bloop bleep. But it was a very good first date.”

Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress

“It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.”

Roger Scruton (1944–2020) English philosopher

“I think everyone is nervous the first time they meet a new boyfriend’s family and it doesn’t make you less nervous when it’s a royal couple. You always want to give a good first impression. The first meeting being nice, means a lot.”

Princess Marie of Denmark (1976) Danish princess

“Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

“It is unfortunate that a good talent and a good man seldom come together.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom