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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Good, Different, Weather

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman

Happiness, Good, Health

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma

Good, Freedom, Someone

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'Rourke

Marriage, Good, Sympathy

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
Nancy Lopez

Win, Give, Find

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler

Religion, Family, Health

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowski

Good, Taste, Creates

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.
Joan Rivers

Life, Good, Care

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Kin Hubbard

Keep, Plan, Talking

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
Andy Rooney

Good, Enough, Musicians

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

Good, Great, Power

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

Busy, Country, Hair

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov

Two, Fall, Close

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth

Good, Home, Eyes

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
Molly Parker

Insecurity, Feeling, Control

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Evil, Deep, Self

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
Harvey Fierstein

Nice, Before, Moment

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Allen

Good, Thoughts, Bear

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
Jean Kerr

Best, Around, Making

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler

Trying, Another, Lives

Better be alone than in bad company.
Thomas Fuller

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett

Knowledge, Ignorance, Dangerous

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri

Good, Perfect, Treatment

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Sivananda

Life, Good, Thoughts

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke

Change, Done, Sometimes

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg

Character, Greedy, Mark

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats

Good, Best, Him

A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams

Good, Nothing, Old

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
Phyllis Diller

End, Matter, Song

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