Quotes with worst-dressed

Quotes 61 till 80 of 313.

  • George F. Will Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Albert Ellis For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Boethius For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Patrick Henry For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Alexander Pope For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Joseph Stowell God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Paine Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Chris Patten Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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  • Nathanael Emmons Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • John Dryden Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Philip Roth He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
    American Pastoral
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • William Hazlitt His worst is better than any other person's best.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Maya Angelou How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Walt Whitman I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Tucker I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • James A. Garfield I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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