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Worse, legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration...

Worse, legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration to the old, sick and vulnerable that others consider their lives worthless.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about old, olderness

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

Quote by Lester Bangs about myth, country

If you try to be better than worse, you'll be better at...

If you try to be better than worse, you'll be better at being worse.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about being

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

Bad excuses are worse than none

Bad excuses are worse than none

Quote by Thomas Fuller about philosophy, bad luck, bad

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever...

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

Quote by Woody Allen about humor, death, things, life

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about money, age, olderness

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

Quote by Lester Bangs about television

There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet...

There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet and, though I write fiction, I like to think that my background information is solid.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about fiction, internet

The folk-origin of ballads and the multiple authorship of epics are heresies worse than the futilities of the Baconians; at any rate, they are based on the same resolute omission, and build on it a wilder fantasy.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about origin

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained...

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about judges

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Quote by Francis Bacon

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not...

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Quote by Francis Bacon about things

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Quote by Dean Acheson about moral, mistake

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy...

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, nothing

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy...

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, nothing

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying...

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, public

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be...

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Quote by Aeschylus about lie

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a...

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.

Quote by Aesop about friendship, enemies, things, man

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