Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
Erma Bombeck

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Henry David Thoreau

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

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Mae West

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde