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The road to hell is paved with good intentions
(
idea
)
by
lazyr
Thu Sep 14 2000 at 15:16:53
This quote is frequently attributed to
Karl Marx
and
anonymous
, but occurances of
Samuel Johnson
,
Rita Disbennett
,
Delenn
,
Jane Austen
and
Richard Baxterand
have been spotted as well. One
source
claimed it an Irish
proverb
. Here are some variations on a theme:
"The road to hell is
pave
d with good
intention
s and littered with sloppy
analysis
."
-anonymous
"
The ends justify the means
, thought
Aziraphale
. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. [Footnote: This is not actually true. The road to
Hell
is paved with frozen door-to-door
salesmen
. On weekends many of the younger
demon
s go
ice-skating
down it.]"
-
Terry Pratchett
/
Neil Gaiman
"The road to
Prague
is paved with
Russian
tank
s armed with the best intentions."
-
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions
."
-
Terry Goodkind
"The road to the
patent
office is paved with good
invention
s."
- unknown
"The road to
ignorance
is paved with good
edition
s."
- unknown
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