Bad Tendency Test

Famous quotes containing the words bad, tendency and/or test:

“I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“I begin, then, with some remarks about ‘the meaning of a word.’ I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)

“The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)