A Quote by Mark Twain

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

James Patterson

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't know that I'm an example. I hate to say, 'Yes, look at me. I'm a good example of being Mormon.' I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I'm a good example.

Stephenie Meyer

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

Mark Twain

3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

Roger Ebert

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

Peter L. Berger

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

Doug Larson

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Norman Vincent Peale

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.

Wilferd Peterson

I love sketch; it's my favorite form. But if it's all improv, they're either very good, and it's annoying how good they are, and it makes you feel bad, or they're not too good; then you're sweating for them.