Something Worse Quotes
49 quotes by 45 authors
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
— John Quincy Adams
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
— Emily Bronte
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To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than…
— Jack White
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce,…
— Meles Zenawi
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To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure…
— Maimonides
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable.…
— Roger L'Estrange
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;-…
— Thaddeus Golas
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"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make…
— Alexandra David-Neel
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse,…
— Alexander Pope
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for…
— John Steinbeck
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to…
— Gautama Buddha
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’
— Denise Scott Brown
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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Something Worse Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 49 Something Worse Quotes, led by these top contributors: