bad quotes

“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”

— Terry Pratchett

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. ”

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

“From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”

— Isaac Asimov

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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”

— Salvador Dali

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

— Woody Allen

“Bad men are full of repentance.”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

“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. ”

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