Quotes of Relieve - somelinesforyou

“ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ”

- Emily Kimbrough

“ Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. ”

- Princess Diana

“ Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ Our interest is in making certain the members of Congress have full information about it, and that, we're convinced, will give them a level of comfort with this. ”

- Karl Rove

“ It was a terrible day. I can only console myself with the fact that if it hadn't happened I wouldn't have written a book. As a result I was asked to write my autobiography. ”

- Dick Francis

“ Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore. ”

- Budd Schulberg

“ What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. ”

- Edward Young

“ Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ”

- George Eliot

“ I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ”

- George Eliot

“ Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ”

- Billy Graham

“ We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don't. ”

- Frank A Clark

“ To feel at home, stay at home. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort; with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. ”

- Seneca

“ Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them? ”

- J. Michael Straczynski
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