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“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”
Aesop
“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
“No enemy is worse than bad advice.”
Sophocles
“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”
Sophocles
“He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.”
Sophocles
“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.”
Sophocles
“How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.”
Sophocles
“No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.”
Sophocles
“There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.”
Sophocles
“Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.”
Sophocles
“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
Victor Hugo
“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“An overflow of good converts to bad.”
William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
William Shakespeare
“Guns are bad, I tell you.”
Eminem
“Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”
Eminem
“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
“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.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.”
Johnny Depp
“Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.”
Bob Dylan
“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot
“I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.”
Clint Eastwood
“People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.”
Clint Eastwood
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
