The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. Votes: 4
Dante AlighieriIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeThe meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. Votes: 2
Thomas CarlyleTerms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation. Votes: 2
David IckeYou make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad. Votes: 2
John MayerNothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.
Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of HandsworthConfessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron DewarIf you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThat bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachA good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannYou'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." â Anne Shirley
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThe only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
George Bernard ShawAvoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.
Johann Kaspar LavaterIt is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
Norman Vincent PealeA good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.
Conor Cruise O'BrienThe coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnd when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSome people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.
Dustin Lance BlackA book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachAs a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!
Mehmet Murat ildanOf earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides of CeosYour children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.
Harriet LernerThe SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
Martin Luther King, Jr.When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!
Mehmet Murat ildanGlobalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
Richard StallmanLet a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Sholom RokeachPraise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.
Swami VivekanandaYou never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
William Least Heat-MoonNobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
Booth TarkingtonWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
Edgar Allan PoeAs with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.
Fuller Albright'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence SterneThe good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
William JamesGood policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.
Bob Schiefferyoung or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
Charles BukowskiThe bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.
Chuck PalahniukThe idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
Meryl StreepThe good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.
Sarah SilvermanOkay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?
Cindy GerardYoung ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.
Eartha KittI've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.
Jeff GordonDon't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Jenny DownhamTo will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
John CalvinI don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'
Joseph HellerThrough ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLiving alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
Mason CooleyIn a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
Patrick WilsonWhile skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.
Stephen ColbertHell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
Walter HustonLuxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense
David HumeThe object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.
Dwight L. MoodyI am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
Elie WieselEverything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.
Harry CarayAnimals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.
Justin TorresWe should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
Lin YutangAdults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.
Michael Scott[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.
Nick CleggA man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
Simonides of CeosAny fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
Theodore RoethkeIn truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
Thomas B. MacaulayMalice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?
Thomas JeffersonYour teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.
Tobin HeathGet it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
William FaulknerLife under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
Oscar WildeWhether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln
Abraham LincolnI am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.
Alaa Al AswanyThe world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
Andrew MarvellBad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.
Ellen HopkinsI'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.
Georgia O'KeeffeI don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.
Karl LagerfeldNothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
Lou HoltzThere are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too
Michael W. SmithNo one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him
Napoleon HillThe world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Niccolo MachiavelliMany of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.
Suze OrmanIf you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
Thornton WilderActing is like sex, it's possible if your partner is bad, but it's better if they're good.
Xavier SamuelUnfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
Zara PhillipsCriticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.
Charles Caleb ColtonPeople are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.
David ZayasLiberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
John MajorLife"the way it really is"is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Joseph BrodskyYou know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.
Luc BessonI do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
Marshall McLuhanIt's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.
Paula ScherThe fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
VoltaireThere are certain relationships that just don't fit into "good" or "bad"; they transcend it.
Alison RosenIf you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.
Brendan RodgersThe typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.
Charles KetteringA habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Douglas MerrillIn the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
Freeman DysonBad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.
Fyodor DostoevskyThe good news is, President Obama was born in America. The bad news is, so was Donald Trump.
Jay LenoThe good news is that Jesus is praying for us. The bad news is that we are going to need it!
John WimberBad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JuvenalThere's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.
Maggie StiefvaterWhether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
Michel de MontaigneGolf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.
Nick FaldoBad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
Peter KreeftDon't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
RajneeshYou have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
Robert Penn WarrenBad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
SocratesYou cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
SophoclesWhen good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America
Oscar WildeOne's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
Bertrand RussellCan you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
E. L. KonigsburgIt is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
Edvard MunchBad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
Georg C. LichtenbergDon't be afraid to take bad pictures, because good pictures are the mistakes of bad pictures.
Gueorgui PinkhassovIt was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Jane AustenIt has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
Judith ViorstOh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.
L. Frank BaumThings aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.
Libba BrayIn a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown
Mary Ann ShafferA basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad AyoobTo me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
Reba McEntireA man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
Samuel JohnsonMy dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
Sofia CoppolaIf it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
St. JeromeThe welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
Thomas SowellBad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.
Dave HickeyOne battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
Ernest HemingwayGood or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.
Frank FrazettaA good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
George R. R. MartinBad days, good days, "I'll cut you if you look at me the wrong way' days. I'll take them all.
Ilona AndrewsI never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
Jessica LangeSo shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
John MiltonIf you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
Miles DavisI'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
Sean PennYou've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.
Sylvia DayI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette DavisYour children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
Beverly LaHayeIt's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.
Bill BurrThe song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.
Deepak ChopraThere is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig
Denzel WashingtonNo accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them...
Francois de La RochefoucauldGood tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
George S. PattonWhen you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.
Jane FondaIf only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad "
Jasper FfordeSociety is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.
Julia Quinn. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
Laurence J. PeterRemember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.
Norman Vincent PealeNone of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.
Paulo CoelhoMost people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones.
Rick JoynerBy the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
Roger WatersWhen we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Tom RobbinsModeration is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
Oscar WildeYou can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
Ann PatchettWhy should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
Benjamin FranklinTo me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.
Chad PenningtonWhen you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
ConfuciusA bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
Dionne WarwickAs if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias CanettiSociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.
Frank KnightAll good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
Friedrich NietzscheWhy Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
John PiperLooking for the good in everything is equally as misguided as looking for the bad in everything.
Joseph CurialeMoney, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
PhiloI think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.
Sarah SilvermanScores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.
Suzanne CollinsThere's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
Theodore SturgeonJust remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.
Troy AikmanI that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.
William ShakespeareControls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
William WordsworthI understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
Abraham LincolnHere's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
Alice HoffmanAt home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.
Andres NocioniThe nice thing about Farscape is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.
Ben BrowderWhen people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
Brian EnoCultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
ConfuciusGood writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesnât make you good. Writing badly does.
Dan HarmonThere ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.
Dave MasonMy back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.
Dianna AgronIt cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
James MillBad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
Malcolm GladwellThe winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing...
Martin LutherI feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.
Patty SchemelI'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.
Paul BloomEvery moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.
Ralph MarstonThe Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesIt's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
Tullian TchividjianEverything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
BodhidharmaMost of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
Chaim PotokThe demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.
ConfuciusThere is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
Donella MeadowsSome politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.
Ed SheeranYou have got a good side? I have. I just do not use it too often. My bad side is so much more fun.
Faye KellermanGood and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
Gore VidalBut a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
Immanuel KantBad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart MillI think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.
LaMont JordanI am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Lisa SeeCakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryA good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
Mary McCarthyThe gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.
Michelle SagaraStupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
Neal ShustermanMuch of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.
Rick WarrenWe know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
Russell BanksWhen you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
Sally FieldThe bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.
Stephen KingTechnology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.
Alfonso CuaronIf we believe the good we read about ourselves, we have to believe the bad we read about ourselves.
Anthony AndersonIt keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
Bon ScottAs a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
ChanakyaTo the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...
Chris CopelandNot all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.
Dan ArielyI have found that I really am different. Thereâs nobody like me. And not that itâs good or bad.
Derek SandersonThere is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
EuripidesI'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Henry RollinsMoney is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.
John AvanziniI learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
John ElkannI'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.
Jonah HillMen cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
Lord ActonI had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.
Mike LowellSometimes the one person that's bad for you is the person that on a bad day can make you feel good.
Mirtha MichelleMoney is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
Napoleon HillIt's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.
Robert BrowningDo not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
Thomas-Alexandre DumasHuman beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
Veronica RothYou should shower," I said. "Right now." "I smell that bad?" (Patch) Actually, he smelled that good.
Becca FitzpatrickGood managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
Benjamin Graham