Worst Quotes - Page 9

• Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

  Plautus

  Pain, Men, Littles

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• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Evil, Dying

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• The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Atheism, Vices, Sincerity

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• I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Evil, Gains

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.191

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• The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Weak, Said

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.195

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• Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion, World, Christianity

  Thomas Paine, Philip Sheldon Foner (1993). “The life and major writings of Thomas Paine”, Citadel Pr

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• The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

  Edgar Guest

  Military, Men, Tests

  "Over Here".

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• The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

  Rob Corddry

  Country, Travel, Talking

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• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

  Lord Byron

  Military, Tyranny

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• I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Fighting, Player

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• Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Cat, Animal

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

  David Sarnoff

  Business, Inspiration, People

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• The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Broken, Advice

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• The worst feeling is pretending you do not care about something, when really it is all you seem to think about.Do not date the most beautiful girl in the world, date the girl that makes your world the most beautiful.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Beautiful, Girl, Meaningful

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Cheating, Self

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131

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• The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

  Radhanath Swami

  Essence, Mind, Suffering

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• Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Young, Despite

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

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• Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Mistake, Intelligent, Gone

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• History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Errors, Security Systems

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• Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greed, Ingratitude, Avarice

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• The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

  Michael Parenti

  Successful, Liberty, Fabric

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• Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

  John Dryden

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.230

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• Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

  Jonathan Swift

  Book, Reading, Argument

  "The works of Dean Swif".

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• This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.

  Terrell Owens

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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