worse quotes

More will mean worse.

- Sir Kingsley Amis
  On expanding university intake, in Encounter,  Jul.

Often, the fear of one evil leadsus into inflicting onethat is worse.

- Nicolas Boileau (Despre  aux)
  L'Art poe  tique.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'Birches'.

Love'slikethemeaslesalltheworsewhenitcomeslate in life.

- Douglas William Jerrold
The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published1859),'Love'.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason.

-John Milton
  Of Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.110^14.

Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse.

-Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317
Metamorphoses, bk.7, l.20^1 (translated by Peter Green).

Then strip lads, and to it, though sharp be the weather, And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall, There are worse things in life than a tumble on the heather And life is itself a game of football.

- Sir Walter Scott
  On a matchbetween the Scottish teams Ettrick andSelkirk, published in the EdinburghJournal.

   There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

- Laurence Sterne
  A SentimentalJourney,'The Pulse, Paris'.

Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

-Jonathan Swift
  ATale of aTub, ch.9.

   There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.1.