Some wise quotes on bad influences?

By admin, December 18, 2009

Something referring to a heart torn between the good things and bad? Just something that sounds very wise, and makes you think.

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4 Responses to “Some wise quotes on bad influences?”

  1. Ashley S says:

    dont tell me sky’s the limit when man has walked on the moon

  2. randa says:

    Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together

  3. gdwallis says:

    The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
    - William James

    As water lends itself to the shape of the vessel which contains it, so a man is influenced by his good or bad friends.
    - Japanese proverb

    The dry reed does not seek the company of the fire.
    - Arabian proverb

    Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
    - English proverb

    God grant me the company of those who seek the truth, and God deliver me from those who have found it.
    - Sir Isaac Newton

    Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
    - George Washington

    [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
    - Seneca the Younger

    No sunshine but hath some shadow.
    - John Clarke (1609-1676)

    This world is not so bad a world
    As some would like to make it.
    And whether good or whether bad
    Depends on how we take it.
    - anon

    It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
    - Woody Allen

  4. Jo W says:

    “Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.” – Emily Dickinson

    “To be with a man who hasn’t tried every line, who hasn’t broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.” – Uma Thurman

    “It’s afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn’t necessarily prove that you loved him” – Marguerite Duras

    “break up in its final moments.” – George Black

    “Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.” – Ramona C. Carroll

    “When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place” – C.S. Lewis

    “Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders” – Friedrich Nietzsche

    “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato

    “I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received” – Antonio Porchia

    “The wise sees knowledge and action as one; they see truly” – Bhagavad Gita

    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it” – Albert Einstein

    “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” – Oprah Winfrey

    Here are the sources -

    http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/423073/emily-dickinson/parting-is-all-we-know-of-heaven-and-all-we-need-of

    http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/307419/uma-thurman/to-be-with-a-man-who-hasnt-tried-every-line-who-hasnt

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