"A Few Good Things Remain" is a song written by Jon Vezner and Pat Alger, and recorded by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in November 1990 as the second single from her compilation album A Collection of Hits.

<convention> (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The <a href="">Trailblazera>'s 19.2 K<a href="">bauda> <a href="">PEPa> mode with <a href="">on-the-flya> <a href="">Lempel-Ziv compressiona> is a Good Thing for sites relaying <a href="">netnewsa>". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the <a href="">self-modifying codea> from that <a href="">shared librarya> would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "<a href="">Yacca> is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: <a href="">Bad Thinga>, compare <a href="">big wina>. [<a href="">Jargon Filea>] (1995-05-07)

"In a Good Cause—" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in a 1951 edition of the anthology New Tales of Space and Time and was reprinted in the collection Nightfall and Other Stories (1969).