Quotes of Gall - somelinesforyou

“ He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. ”

- Bible

“ You just hope the bitterness and rancor don't continue, and that everybody finds a peaceable ending. Watching a train wreck? or listening to one? isn't a great way to spend your morning. ”

- Tom Taylor

“ They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ I firmly believe in chutzpah - that terrific Yiddish word for gall, guts, the drive to put yourself ahead. Part of success comes from knowing when to push and how hard. ”

- Helen Gurley Brown

“ Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. ”

- John Locke

“ One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. ”

- Jean Kerr

“ No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. ”

- William Penn

“ Can you imagine the insolence of these protesters?... They have the audacity to disparage and demean these courageous soldiers who are enduring great physical and emotional trauma because they believed in the effort to bring freedom to Iraq. ”

- Jerry Falwell

“ Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press. ”

- Thomas Griffith

“ When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend… ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough… ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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