Good drink drives out bad thoughts.
It is a bad well that you have to fill with water.
A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
A bad workman never finds a good tool.
It's a bad bridge that is narrower than the stream.
Bad birds seldom bring good weather.
It's a bad hen that won't scratch herself.
Good deeds banish bad ones.
A bad agreement is better than a good lawsuit.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
The bad calligrapher is choosy about his brushes.
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.
The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.
Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.
Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.
Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attit...
