Quotes with worst-tempered

Quotes 201 till 220 of 284.

  • Charles Dickens The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles James Fox The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Hazlitt The worst old age is that of the mind.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Herodotus The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Bill Gates The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
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    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Francis Bacon The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Paul Klee The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bethany McLean The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Doris Lessing The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Wilson Mizner The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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