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- When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
- Isabel Colegate
- The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards
- I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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