“I was good and bad, but never wicked.”

“Everything is evil. I mean, everything that is, is wicked; every existing thing is an evil; everything exists for a wicked end. Existence is a wickedness and is ordained for wickedness. Evil is the end, the final purpose, of the universe…The only good is nonbeing; the only really good thing is the thing that is not, things that are not things; all things are bad.”

Giacomo Leopardi book Zibaldone

“It's never as good as I hoped or as bad as I feared ~ Into My Hands”

Steve Kilbey (1954) British artist

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”

Eleanor Hibbert (1906–1993) English novelist

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“It is better to fight with a few good men against all the wicked, than with many wicked men against a few good men.”

Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher

“I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

“It was abominable — wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express