Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
Branch Rickey

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.
Robert Anthony

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.
Mitch Daniels

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
John Le Carre

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
Hesketh Pearson

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.
Tillie Olsen

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Amy Tan

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
Adrienne Rich

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton

People work harder when conditions are worse.
Jeff Goldblum

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
Michael Frayn

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.
Hilary Duff

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.
Catherine Keener

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Emily Bronte