An inch too short is as bad as a yard.
Bad charcoal only makes smoke.
Not to know is bad, not to want to know is worse.
A bad cause requires many words.
Better a good hanging than a bad marriage.
Goodness reaches further than badness.
A fast is better than a bad meal.
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
Bad is want which is born of plenty.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A bad peace is better than a good quarrel.
A bad reaper never gets a good sickle.
Better a good hope than a bad possession.
A bad penny always turns up.
I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great." [ , Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]
I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.
