Worse Quotes - page 7

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. (Thomas Hardy)
The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while. View quote
Jonathan Tropper
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings. View quote
Robert Bork
Times go by turns and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. View quote
Robert Southwell
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. View quote
William O. Douglas
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish. (José Rizal)
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. View quote
Dorothy Day
If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" View quote
John Constable
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none. View quote
Henry Taylor
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. View quote
Alexander Pope
It seems to me that kings - and queens - can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who. View quote
Robert Jordan
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. View quote
Robert Frost
If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is. View quote
John Rawls
The even larger difference between rich and poor makes the latter even worse off, and this violates the principle of mutual advantage. (John Rawls)
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved. View quote
Irvine Welsh
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck. View quote
W. H. Auden
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. View quote
W. H. Auden
I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father. View quote
Kim Wilde