Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker…

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

— William Shakespeare

And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender…

— William Shakespeare

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints…

— Samuel Johnson

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

— Charles Baudelaire

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in…

— Jack Vance

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker…

— Ovid

When love becomes a canker sores are healed burn time |

— Mak_786

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

— William Shakespeare

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

— Tamora Pierce

“When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be…

— Charlotte Brontë

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

— Pietro Metastasio

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough…

— J. Reuben Clark

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

— Confucius