Quotes 121 till 140 of 284.
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Many things - such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
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My worst quality is impatience.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
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Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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