I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
You are going to have bad days and have good days.
I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
Fire is a good slave, but a bad master.
Better alone than in bad company.
It's a bad plan that cannot be changed.
There's no thief like a bad book.
Bad and good are intertwined like rope.
The bad plowman quarrels with his oxen.
It is a bad plowman that quarrels with his ox.
Bad is called good when worse happens.
A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.
A bad peace is better than a good war.
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An agenda is not a bad thing.
