“Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Lost Woman Song
Song lyrics
Source: Abarat
“Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Lost Woman Song
Song lyrics
“I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
Philip Roth book American Pastoral
Source: American Pastoral
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
As quoted by John M. Kost http://www.mackinac.org/bio.aspx?ID=104 (25 July 1995) in S. 946, the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996). <br class="br">This appears to derive from a 1910 advertisement by writer Alfred Henry Lewis for a forthcoming series of biographical articles about Roosevelt: "All activity, Mr. Roosevelt has often shown that it is better to do the wrong thing than do nothing at all. In politics this last is peculiarly true. The best thing is to do the right thing; the next best is to do the wrong thing; the worst thing of all things is to stand perfectly still". (e.g. in La Follette's Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=RV4CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA183&dq=%22best+thing%22+%22right+thing%22+%22worst+thing%22+nothing&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNksu-nZrMAhVDy2MKHSl1Df8Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22the%20best%20thing%20is%20to%20do%20the%20right%20thing%22&f=false (28 May 1910) <br class="br">Disputed
“Work is the best and worst of all things; the best of it is voluntary, the worst of it is servile.”
Alain (1868–1951) French philosopher
Happy Farmers
Alain On Happiness (1928)
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 21
Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels