Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocotts Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. | | Worst |
| Would Heaven this mourning were past! One may have better luck at last; Matters at worst are sure to mend, The devils wife was but a fiend. Prior.The Turtle and Sparrow, Line 414. | 1 |
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before. Shakespeare.Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 2. (Rosse to Lady Macduff.) | 2 |
His only solace was, that now, His dog-bolt fortune was so low, That either it must quickly end, Or turn about again, and mend. Butler.Hudibras, Part II. Canto I. Line 39. | 3 |
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse my friend; For when at worst, they say, things always mend. Cowper.Translation from Owen. To a Friend in Distress. | 4 | |
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