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 F. Kennedy

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers