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

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
Humphrey Bogart

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel De Cervantes

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
George Soros

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
John Lasseter

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
Sean Connery

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Raymond Chandler

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
Henri Matisse

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.
Sigourney Weaver

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Franz Liszt

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
Tyler Perry