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America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.
She was not really bad at heart, But only rather rude and wild; She was an aggravating child.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
We loved, sirused to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was But then, how it was sweet!
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
No man who has once heartilyand wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
And people in life hardly seem definite enough to appear in print. Theyare not good or bad enough, or clever or stupid enough, or comic or pitiful enough.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
I mean, after all; you have to consider that we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean, it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it.You get me?
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.
We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
There never was a good war or a bad peace. 334
About morals,I know only that what ismoral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Joy, I did lock thee up; but some bad man Hath let thee out again.
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.
A bad book isasmuchof a labour towriteas a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Before youtell someonehowgood youare, you musttell him how bad you used to be.
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Look at the poor lives we lead.It is a wonder that we are so good as we are, not that we are so bad.
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supportshiskingon loyal principles and cuts off hishead on republican principles.
The humble people of Cambodia are the most wonderful in the world.Their great misfortune is that theyalwayshaveterrible leaders who makethemsuffer.I am not sure I was much better myself, but perhaps I was the least bad.
When someone says,'It isgood business', you may be sure it is bad morality.
You should only read what istruly good or what isfrankly bad.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, throws dailyanother loop of fine wire around our souls. It contributes hugely to our mobility, which we must not confuse with freedom. The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discrimination of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something isgood or bad, or right or wrong.
For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light, but every one of you Stamped with the image of the King.
The Red Cow was very respectable, shealways behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or whitethere was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were badthere was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or sourthere were never any moderately nice ones.
It is because we put up with bad things that hotel- keepers continue to give them to us.
We cannot have heroes to dine with us. There are none. And were those heroes to be had, we should not like themthe persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, becausetheyare so good.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
When I'mgood I'm very verygood, but when I'm bad I'm better.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinnersyour lecherous liars and your miserly drunkardswho dishonour the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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