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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler

Health, Money, Happen

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Orson Welles

Best, Successful, Large

An intellectual hatred is the worst.
William Butler Yeats

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Money, Men, Minds

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats

Men, Drunk, Sober

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
David Herbert Lawrence

Evil, Makes, Secret

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson

Best, True, Cannot

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
Campbell Scott

Great, Hard, Lazy

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin Hubbard

Mother, Baby, Singing

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell

Best, Thinking, Words

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling

Choosing, Humans, Knack

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.
Demetri Martin

Time, Heart, Game

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Best, Enemy

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

Mistakes, Someone, Knows

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller

Best, Wife, Fortune

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Caring, Nation, Alive

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
Emo Philips

Life, Family, Time

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler

Best, Live, Words

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

Spirit, Force, Perhaps

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams

Good, Best, Bad

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 de Montaigne

Find, Ugly, Both

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France

Him, Makes, Ways

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Gilbert Parker

Enemy, Greatest, Friend

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Margaret Cho

Beautiful, Woman, Insult

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Women, Men, Best

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere

Time, Complain, Shortness

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Best, Expect, Prepare

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope

Mad, Run, Saint

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