Bad Theme

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

There is no book so bad, but something good may be found in it.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

There is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it’s the good men that can’t deny the bill when it comes around. They can’t deny it, like the honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that’s why don’t anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good can’t.

There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.