Bad quotes and words of wisdom

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."
Albert Camus


"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally,who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
Eleanor Roosevelt


"At this day ... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God."
John Calvin


"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."
Dick Brandon


"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere."
Helen Gurley Brown


"Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better."
Douglas Jerrold


"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people"s bad manners."
H. Jackson Browne


"HAMLET Denmark"s a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o" the worst. ROSENCRANTZ We think not so, my lord. HAMLET Why, then, "tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Why then, your ambition makes it one; "tis too narrow for your mind. HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. GUILDENSTERN Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
William Shakespeare


"He hurts the good who spares the bad."
Publilius Syrus


"He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, And time are three things that never stand still."
Charles Caleb Colton


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


"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That"s all it takes to get people to win football games for you."
Paul "Bear" Bryant


"If you can"t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly."
Ashleigh Brilliant


"If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day."
William G. T. Shedd


"It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad."
Agesilaus II


"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild."
Immanuel Kant


"Rotten wood cannot be carved."
Proverb


"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Abraham Lincoln


"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
Samuel Johnson


"The world in all doth but two nations bear? The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere."
Andrew Marvell


"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld


"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."
Woody Allen


"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke


"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we?d been saying they were."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Interesting Quotes

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot - English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877)

Catch 22Joseph Heller - US novelist (1923 - )