#wors

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #idea #like #lost #mushrooms

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated. ↗

— Chris Ware

#being #even #even worse #expect #front

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

#discharge #done #duty #employed #executed

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. ↗

— George Washington

#bad #kind #lost #only #passes

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. ↗

— John Webster

#carry #evermore #gifts #go #go to hell

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core. ↗

— Len Wein

#core #despicable #even #find #her

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#closest #monotheism #period #unity #way

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected. ↗

— Allen West

#cemeteries #country #day #fallen #forgotten

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#apparently #doing #duty #else #unfitted

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun. ↗

— Jack White

#everyday #everyday people #fun #i #i think