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QUOTES including the word: "bad"

Washington:
  • It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

  • Henri Michaux:
  • He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Alfred Adler:
  • We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Sinclair Lewis:
  • Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

  • Pablo Picasso:
  • Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  • Boccaccio:
  • People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Jean Genet:
  • To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • Boris Pasternak:
  • No bad man can be a good poet.

  • Thales:
  • Whatever bad happens to your house not to be disclosed .

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

  • 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.

  • Gabriel Marquez:
  • The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

  • 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.

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

  • Menander:
  • Bad company corrupts good character.

  • Schweitzer:
  • Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory

  • Gracian:
  • Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

  • Charles Bukowski:
  • Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Maxim Gorky:
  • A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

  • Walt Whitman:
  • “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”

  • Francis Bacon:
  • Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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