In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.
Philly ain't a good environment for you when you headed in a different direction. Bad things happen left and right. You might walk up the street, make a wrong turn, and your whole life could flip.
This is not the time for critical experiments which would have a highly destructive effect on morale.
The only soldier ever so honored
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Nothing good happens after midnight.
When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.
When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
When I force things, it just doesn't go well.
The gift of a bad man can bring no good.