Quotes of Nasty - somelinesforyou

“ By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher — and that is good for any man. ”

- Socrates

“ Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. ”

- George Eliot

“ Bad literature is a form of treason. ”

- Joseph Brodsky

“ A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ And now, I am dying beyond my means. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. ”

- Louis Kronenberger

“ If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life. ”

- Arthur Ashe

“ Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ”

- Claudian

“ I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste. ”

- Graham Norton

“ Technology happens. It's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad? ”

- Andrew Grove

“ Tradition may be good or bad. ”

- Noah Webster

“ If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. ”

- Philip K. Dick

“ It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Does he council you better who bids you, "Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ? ”

- Horace

“ Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ”

- Stephen Baldwin

“ All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. ”

- Julius Caesar

“ It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. ”

- Carry Nation

“ The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ”

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“ When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”

- Mae West

“ It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ”

- George Washington

“ There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. ”

- Andy Gibb

“ Brockton is the mecca for bad drivers. ”

- Lloyd Jones

“ Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way — by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. ”

- Juliene Berk

“ Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate. ”

- John Ciardi

“ Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say. ”

- Henry Miller

“ A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe; And when this we rightly know, Thro' the world we safely go, Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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