My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
Layne Staley

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

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
Richard M. Nixon

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
Richard M. Nixon

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
John Dewey

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
Thomas J. Watson

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker

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

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
Diane von Furstenberg

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
Tim Allen

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca