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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Stupidity, Optimism

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms

Health, Jealousy, Trying

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Poetry, Feeling, Genuine

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Find, Says

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton

Life, Attitude, Disability

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, After, Worth

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Music, Good, Talk

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tupac Shakur

Rather, Cold, Shot

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Times, Value

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Good, Great, Character

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Means, Fiction

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

Marriage, Good, Hanging

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

Authority, Necessity, Separate

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers

Good, Experience, Judgment

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, After, Moral

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson

Family, Someone, Small

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Yourself, Book

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

Break, Habits, Easier

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, Good, War

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Ellen DeGeneres

Marriage, Live, Someone

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy

Saying, Find, Office

Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle

Men, Full, Repentance

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, Good, Health

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Good, Alone, Yourself

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Night, Through, Consoling

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Made, Find, Christian

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.
Michael Jordan

Money, Live, Winning

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.
Michael Jordan

Fun, Understand, Within

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