A bad master is better than no master at all.

We have ourselves suffered too much at the hands of bad masters.

But like all servants it makes a bad master.

Like fire, only worse, atomic energy was a good servant, but a very bad master.

But I'm safe here and he's not such a bad master.

He ain't a bad master though, I'll say that for him.

Fire, the saying goes, is a good servant, but a bad master.

Reason, like fire and water, is a bad master but a good servant.

He is a terrible enemy, not a bad master.

Mr President, the market economy is a good slave but a bad master.