I find the medicine worse than the malady.
Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.
Leaks are always bad news.
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.
Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.
If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
There are some desires that are not desirable.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.