In "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §4
The Cyberiad (1967)
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
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pioneer settlement social worker 1860–1935Related quotes
On meurt toujours trop tôt - ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée : le trait est tiré, il faut faire la somme. Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie.
Inès, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
Orson Scott Card
(1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
“There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.”
Stephen Fry
(1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
On the expenses scandal in the UK.
Quoted in Pink News http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12560.html
This is a variation on a line from Lord Macaulay's 'On Moore's Life of Lord Byron' (1830): 'We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.'
2000s
“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”
The Artist's Way (1992), p. xxv
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Hesiod
book
Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
Tad Williams
(1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 724).
Tad Williams
(1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 13, “Between Worlds” (p. 199).