From bad to worse. [ French ]
So much the worse. [ French ]
One year a nurse,
And seven the worse. [ Proverb ]
The more you heap,
The worse you cheap. [ Proverb ]
Better so than worse. [ Proverb ]
Go farther and fare worse. [ Proverb ]
Fear is worse than fighting. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Error is worse than Ignorance. [ Bailey ]
Spilt wine is worse than water. [ Proverb ]
The more cooks, the worse broth. [ Proverb ]
The more haste, the worse speed. [ Proverb ]
His bark is worse than his bite. [ Proverb ]
Bad excuses are worse than none. [ Proverb ]
A tattler is worse than a thief. [ Proverb ]
He that grows worse was never good. [ Proverb ]
Bad is never good till worse befall. [ Danish Proverb ]
He that thinks amiss concludes worse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The remedy is worse than the disease. [ Bacon ]
The better workman the worse husband. [ Proverb ]
Every thing is the worse for wearing. [ Proverb ]
Suspense is worse than disappointment. [ Burns ]
Half-knowledge is Worse than lgnorance. [ Macaulay ]
The cure may be worse than the disease. [ Proverb ]
Women have no worse enemies than women. [ Duclos ]
The older the fool is, the worse he is. [ Proverb ]
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. [ Bruyere ]
A wicked woman, and an evil,
Is three half pence worse than the devil. [ Proverb ]
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]
You may have worse offers before May-day. [ Proverb ]
Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart. [ Shelley ]
Why are those tears? why droops your head
Is then your other husband dead?
Or does a worse disgrace betide?
Hath no one since his death applied? [ Gay ]
Some remedies are worse than the disease. [ Publius Syrus ]
Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]
The worse the man, the better the soldier. [ Napoleon I ]
I find the medicine worse than the malady. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
For good or evil must in our actions meet;
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. [ Donne ]
O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is worse to do than to revenge an injury. [ Proverb ]
Oftentimes, excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse;
As patches, set upon a little breach.
Discredit more in hiding of the fault,
Than did the fault before it was so patched. [ William Shakespeare ]
The worse luck now, the better another time. [ Proverb ]
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls. [ William Shakespeare ]
Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. [ Herbert ]
There is an aching that is worse than any pain. [ George MacDonald ]
Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. [ Proverb ]
They are so like that both are the worse for it. [ Proverb ]
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]
Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse. [ Proverb ]
The worse the passage, the more welcome the port. [ Proverb ]
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]
You will never see anything worse than yourselves. [ Anon ]
I never fared worse than when I wished for supper. [ Proverb ]
Poverty of the soul is worse than that of fortune. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
It is a shame to steal, but a worse to carry home. [ Proverb ]
Contempt is usually worse borne than real injuries. [ Proverb ]
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be known so. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A fault is made worse by endeavoring to conceal it. [ Proverb ]
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world.
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [ William Shakespeare ]
The abuse of riches is worse than the want of them. [ Proverb ]
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. [ Proverb ]
A bad beginning has a bad, or makes a worse, ending. [ Proverb ]
Gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. [ Shakespeare ]
The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill. [ Proverb ]
Like a collier's sack, bad without, but worse within. [ Proverb ]
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trapping. [ Proverb ]
No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. [ Proverb ]
Gentility without ability is worse than plain begging. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Passion makes a man a beast, but wine makes him worse. [ Proverb ]
Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse. [ Proverb ]
It is an ill thing to be deceived, but worse to deceive. [ Proverb ]
To serve the people, is worse than to serve two masters. [ Proverb ]
To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived by him. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile. [ Buckle ]
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. [ Publius Syrus ]
It is ill to take an unlawful oath, but worse to keep it. [ Proverb ]
This and better may do, but this and worse will never do. [ Proverb ]
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. [ Cervantes ]
It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be found out. [ Italian Proverb ]
Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The wicked grow worse, and the good men better from trouble. [ Proverb ]
Many would have been worse if their estates had been better. [ Proverb ]
A pot that belongs to many, is ill stirred and worse boiled. [ Proverb ]
I see and approve the better course, but I follow the worse. [ Ovid ]
We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardies. [ Daniel ]
Such a stroke with the tongue is worse than one with a lance. [ French Proverb ]
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Women are extremists: they are either better or worse than men. [ La Bruyere ]
Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home? [ Proverb ]
Stagnation is something worse than death, it is corruption also. [ Simms ]
Ingratitude makes the receiver worse, but the benefactor better. [ Proverb ]
Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? [ Milton ]
Women are extreme in all points. They are better or worse than men. [ Bruyere ]
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. [ Jerrold ]
Learning is worse lodged in him, than Jove was in a thatched house. [ Proverb ]
To be deceived by a promise, is worse than to be put by one's hopes. [ Proverb ]
Women are ever in extremes; they are either better or worse than men. [ Bruyere ]
All you'll get by it, you may put into your eyes, and not see the worse. [ Proverb ]
Great passions are incurable diseases; the very remedies make them worse. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [ Ovid ]
Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. [ Zimmermann ]
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. [ Milton ]
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. [ Rochefoucauld ]
I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown. [ William Shakespeare ]
A bitter and perplexed What shall I do?
is worse to man than worse necessity. [ Coleridge ]
Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell. [ Kingsley ]
The remedy is worse than the disease (the disorder increases with the remedy).
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. [ Pope ]
Women grown bad are worse than men, because the corruption of the best turns worst. [ Proverb ]
They that do nothing are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing. [ Johann Zimmerman ]
Chastise the good, and he will grow better; chastise the bad, and he will grow worse. [ Italian Proverb ]
He that flatters himself in sciences, and grows worse in morals, makes no improvement. [ Proverb ]
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. [ John Locke ]
To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. [ A. Warwick ]
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left is left no fear. [ Milton ]
He that condemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her. [ L'Estrange ]
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. [ Goethe ]
Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. [ Ovid ]
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
It is the strange fate of man that even in the greatest evils the fear of worse continues to haunt him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. [ Massinger ]
His tongue dropped manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason, to perplex and dash maturest counsels. [ Milton ]
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from the sword; the latter affects only the body - the former, the spirit, the soul. [ Pythagoras ]
Simple diet is best; for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. [ Pliny ]
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. [ Montaigne ]
Without great men, great crowds of people in a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas - the more, the worse. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to chink himself a respectable man. [ George MacDonald ]
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues. [ Hazlitt ]
That plenty should produce either Covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. [ William Penn ]
In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail. [ W. E. Channing ]
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. [ O. W. Holmes ]
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. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. [ Chesterfield ]
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. [ Pope ]
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor. [ Feltham ]
Procrastination has been called a thief, - the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul. [ Nevins ]
Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]
To give pleasure to others and take it ourselves, we have to begin by removing the ego, which is hateful, and then keep it in chains as long as the diversions last. There is no worse killjoy than the ego. [ Charles Wagner ]
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
A blushing young damsel of 109 has just died at Mallow, Ireland. She had been an ardent smoker of twist tobacco for 81 years, and finally died in the bloom of her youth. To make matters worse, she was an orphan. Those who do not wish to die young should make a note of this. [ Tobacco Jokes For Smoking Folks, 1888 ]
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]
The gracious and self-sacrificing and womanly women of our revolution wore dresses cut lower than those of their great-granddaughters, as any portrait gallery will show. The dress is indefensible, but let us not be too ready to condemn the wearer for worse sins than thoughtlessness and vanity. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]