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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
US poet (1807 - 1882)

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Jackie Onassis

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Helen Gurley Brown

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown
US author and social activist

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Confucious

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns
US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber
US author (1887 - 1968)

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

G. K. Chesterton
English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936)

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

George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
First president of US (1732 - 1799)

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Bertolt Brecht
German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )

Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from Mrs. L. Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
US author & wit (1884 - 1980)

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher

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