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Quotes including the word “bad”.

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Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Aeshop

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

Akhmatova

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Maya Angelou

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Aristophanes

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Karen Blixen

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

Boccaccio

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Borges

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

Charles Bukowski

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Truman Capote

“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”

Cervantes

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

Confucius

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.

Confucius

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

Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Diderot

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Viktor Frankl

“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Jean Genet

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Maxim Gorky

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Gracian

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Hesiod

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Hesiod

A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Hermann Hesse

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

Laozi

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Sinclair Lewis

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Gabriel Marquez

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Menander

Bad company corrupts good character.

Henri Michaux

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.

Edna Milley

My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

Napoleon

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.

Amos Oz

Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.

Boris Pasternak

No bad man can be a good poet.

Pablo Picasso

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Plato

Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Elvis Presley

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Sartre

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory

Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Thales

Whatever bad happens to your house not to be disclosed .

Toulouse

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Washington

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Walt Whitman

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”