The worst readers are those who behave like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, soil and jumble what re...mains, and slander the whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be worst, The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,... Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear. The lamentable change is from the best; The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then, Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace! The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst Owes nothing to thy blasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Galway is a blackguard place, To Cork I give my curse,... Tralee is bad enough, But Limerick is worse. Which is worst I cannot tell, They're everyone so filthy, But of the towns which I have seen Worst luck to Clonakilty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cold eyes ... steel grey, rather small, not unpleasant in good-humour, diabolic in a passion, but worst when a little suspicious; ...then they watch you as though you were a young rattle-snake, to be killed when convenient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations tha...t we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"... has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despise ... like cleaning cupboards ... or entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »