My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane Austen

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny Youngman

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Reinhold Niebuhr

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.
Charlie Chaplin

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy Rooney

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous Huxley

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner