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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A good example is more irritating than a bad one. -- John McAfee
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example. -- Elvis Presley
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor. -- Simon Baker
I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example. -- Steve Garvey
For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on. -- Marvin Hagler
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. -- Charles Sturt
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. -- Francis Bacon
I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids. -- Sarah Shahi
Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example. -- Attila the Hun
Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. -- George Washington
No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example. -- Brian Oldfield
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author. -- Juvenal
If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example. -- Peter L. Berger
Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example. -- Norman Vincent Peale
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example. -- Paul Dickson
There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking. -- Edward J. Flanagan
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example. -- Eric Schmidt
Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example. -- Bridget Christie
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one -- Thomas Jefferson
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example... -- Aldous Huxley
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. -- Thomas Jefferson
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults. -- Confucius
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously. -- Dennis Rodman
Who said I was wise? I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one. -- Jubal
You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve! -- Garrison Wynn
Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead. -- Mac Anderson
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example -- Mark Twain
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. -- Dave Barry
With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people. -- Lana Del Rey
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough. -- Devin Nunes
The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness. -- John Foley
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. -- Auberon Herbert
This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic. -- Edwidge Danticat
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other. -- John Balguy

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