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“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
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Douglas Adams
“A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“ By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”
Socrates
“ Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
Socrates
“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
“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
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
Carl Jung
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
Frank Zappa
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
“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.”
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.”
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
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.”
John Barrymore
“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
Phyllis Diller
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
Horace
“If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.”
Horace
“ He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
Horace
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“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.”
Plato
“Bad men are full of repentance.”
Aristotle
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
Salvador Dali
“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
