the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
59
Scrabble Score
38
Letters
9
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
proverb
proverb
Alternative letter-case form of the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Example Sentences
- "The road to literary hell is paved with the good intentions of publishers who start out saying "I'm gonna do it right; I'm not gonna screw up like Alyson or Gay Sunshine." Several projects later, these publishers are turning down the same "good material" that Alyson and Gay Sunshine did and building up the same type list they first wanted to avoid."
- "The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or so many politicians in Germany’s three-party ruling coalition are now discovering."
- "Ever resolving that this should be his last frolic, (to call it by no harsher name) he but afforded another proof of the old saying, that “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” From drinking at night he soon began to take his morning dram, a morbid appetite was thus engendered, and the unnatural craving of his stomach, continually required a stimulus, until he became a noted tippler."
- "Fifth, there should be more trust in the frequent good intentions of mankind which do sometimes get implemented. There is no more vicious proverb than the one which asserts that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
- "Europe is as ancient as history, and the world turns east to west, so it’s not to be unexpected that Jess Franco’s films are somewhat ahead of their time. And it’s hardly surprising that he has so often been condemned without first being understood because, as philosophers say, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
Etymology
Semantic loan from Hebrew הדרך לגיהנום רצופה כוונות טובות.