bad quotes

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”

“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. ”

— Winston Churchill

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ”

“If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. ”

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”

— Honore de Balzac

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. ”

“There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”

“How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ”

“No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.”

“There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.”

“Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.”

“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ”

— Victor Hugo

“An overflow of good converts to bad.”

— William Shakespeare

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. ”

— Johnny Depp

“Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad. ”

“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad. ”

— Clint Eastwood

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